Nadège Vanhee Cybulski
Nadège Vanhee Cybulski, French designer creative director of Hermès prêt-à-porter
Nadège Vanhee Cybulski is a French designer originally from Seclin, a small French village near the Belgian border. Born to parents of Algerian and French ancestry, she grew up in a small town with few distractions, where Parisian fashion was something distant. Just the lack of style in northern France, as she herself says, pushes her towards fashion.
However, it is music that places her in the fashion sector. In fact, one of his first jobs was as a rock journalist interviewing bands touring the area for a small amateur magazine. He then enrolled at the prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and studied in those places that saw the growth of what are called the fabulous Antwerp Six, the student collective of 1986, which included Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten among others.
Nadège Vanhee Cybulski at Hermès
Nadège Vanhee Cybulski’s first work experiences lead her first to Maison Margiela and Celine, then to the creative direction of the New York brand The Row. In 2014 the turning point: she was appointed new creative director of Hermès prêt-à-porter, after the departure of Christophe Lamaire who held the position for four years.
I knew I wanted to work with her because she has three very important qualities: a genuine appreciation and understanding of craftsmanship. She has a modern and emancipated vision of women; is able to work in a collaborative creative environment.
This is how Axel Dumas, CEO of the Parisian fashion house describes it. Her creative process, which she defines as “introspective”, always starts from the color that offers input on which materials to use and which forms to build. A work that takes the Hermès codes and makes them relevant to our time. Functionality and beauty are the objectives that Nadège pursues with her work at Hermès.
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