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Systems of Clarity

Touch as knowledge

FAS–OTH–HER

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Touch as knowledge

FAS–OTH–HER

Touch as knowledge

Index Code:

FAS–OTH–HER

Orgin:

Paris, France

Field Notes:

touch as knowledge · material as memory · patience as luxury

Defining Moment:

1920s — Transition from saddlery to silk and leather goods; craft became cosmology

Hermès

(

1837 – present

)

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Hermès is a geography of materials: leather stitched like landscape, silk mapped like terrain.

Its world is tactile and enduring — a universe built from patience, precision, and permanence.

Each object charts a philosophy of making where touch is knowledge and time the true luxury.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Hermès’s work, this approach appears where craft logic and repetition define material intelligence.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Hermès’s work, this approach appears where craft logic and repetition define material intelligence.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Femininity as structure

Balance as rhythm

In Dialogue

Martin Margiela

Silence as innovation

Illusion as craft