Leila Menchari: The Queen of Enchantment

For more than 30 years, Leila Menchari (born 1928) was responsible for designing the traffic-stopping window displays at Hermes' prestigious flagship store at 24 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honor' in Paris. Menchari's aesthetic vision and her sense of color and texture created magnificent installations th [...]
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For more than 30 years, Leila Menchari (born 1928) was responsible for designing the traffic-stopping window displays at Hermes' prestigious flagship store at 24 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honor' in Paris. Menchari's aesthetic vision and her sense of color and texture created magnificent installations that brought the best out of silk and leather. Born in Tunis and considering herself a citizen of the world, Menchari was inspired by her journeys to the Near and Far East, her encounters with extraordinary figures of the art world and her Beaux-Arts training. For Hermes she created Egyptian archaeological sites with sand and crumbling statues and iconic scenes of Paris with monuments crafted out of organza, among many other fantasies. Featuring a preface by Hermes CEO Axel Dumas, this extensively illustrated, sumptuous publication focuses on 137 Hermes storefronts created by Leila Menchari between 1978 and 2013.