| Signature Products | Birkin, Kelly, Evelyne and Bolide bags; silk carré scarves; Chaîne d'ancre bracelet; saddlery | Speedy, Keepall, Neverfull and Capucines bags; hard-sided travel trunks; Monogram and Damier canvas leather goods | — | — |
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| Product Categories | Leather goods and saddlery (44% of 2025 sales), clothing, footwear and accessories, silk and textiles, watches, perfume, jewellery, homeware | Handbags and leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, travel, watches, jewellery, accessories, sunglasses, perfumes, cosmetics, books | — | — |
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| Signature Materials & Craft | Bags handcrafted by artisans rather than on assembly lines; origins as a Paris harness and saddle maker | Damier canvas (1888), Monogram canvas (1896), Epi leather (1985); trunks hand-made since the 19th century | — | — |
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| Creative Director | Nadège Vanhée (women's ready-to-wear); Grace Wales Bonner (men's ready-to-wear, succeeding Véronique Nichanian; first collection January 2027) | Nicolas Ghesquière (women's artistic director since 2014, contract extended); Pharrell Williams (men's creative director since 2023) | — | — |
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| Personalisation Services | — | Free hot stamping on small leather goods, tags and some soft luggage; hand-painted hard-sided luggage; engraving (fragrance, select jewellery); Mon Monogram made-to-order (17 colours) | — | — |
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| Returns Policy | Not verified | US: free returns of online purchases within 30 days, online or in store (department-store purchases excluded); Australia: free returns/exchanges within 30 days of delivery; personalised items not returnable | — | — |
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| Fragrance & Beauty | Hermès perfumes (about 3% of sales) | Perfumes and cosmetics sold under the Louis Vuitton name | — | — |
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| Sustainability Initiatives | petit h workshop reuses offcuts and surplus materials; Hermès Foundation supports biodiversity projects | Not verified | — | — |
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| Parent Company | Hermès International; Hermès family holds about 67% via H51; listed on Euronext Paris (CAC 40) | LVMH (merged into the group in 1987) | — | — |
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| Founded | 1837, Paris, by Thierry Hermès | 1854, Paris, by Louis Vuitton | — | — |
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| Repair & Aftercare | About 15 in-house workshops repair roughly 200,000 products a year | — | — | — |
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