Artist behine Hermes Windows - Leila Menchari
Leila Menchari is the window design director of Hermes.
Her story is very intriguing and if you have some time on your hands look her up and read about her journey. Here is a blog post i found on a biography of her that got me hooked:
"Menchari was encouraged by her family, who were very progressive. In fact Menchari came from a long line of headstrong women. Her grandmother was one of the first Tunisian women to remove the veil in public, and began lecturing and educating Tunisian women about their rights.
After graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Tunis, she moved to Paris to pursue her studies in painting at the l’école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. It was there that she met fellow Tunisian Azzedine Alaia, who introduced her to the world of fashion. Through him she met the couturier Guy Laroche, who hired her as an in house model after her graduation from l’école Nationale. Soon after she befriended Annie Beaumel at Hermès, becoming her assistant and head illustrator at the fashion house. That was, until 1977 when she was appointed as head stylist at the prestigious Maison by non-other than Jean Louis Dumas Hermès, the president of Hermès. Although she travels around the world regularly to source out new artisans and feed her inspirations, her attachment to Tunisia has also fed her professional career."
Simply,
Vee xx
