Hermes Hermès Sac Himalaya Symbiose Rouge Vif Ostrich Porosus Crocodile Gold Hardware

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The Himalaya was the flagbag of Symbiose, the 1986 collection of twelve designs Marie-Pierre Bernard created as an outside designer for Hermès, her only work for the house and never reissued. Of the twelve, the Himalaya carried the collection's thesis furthest: a bag conceived to function equally as sculpture, its angular crocodile flap breaking asymmetrically across the body like a rock face, the silhouette readable as a peak. Period coverage treated it as the piece that blurred the line between...