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French kiss

, Hermès artistic director and sixth-generation family member, is feeling nostalgic. He’s handling an almost century-old pocket-sized mirror, which the brand’s namesake founder Thierry Hermès, designed and gave to his wife to assist with her morning make-up application. “Apparently she spent a little bit too much time putting on make-up, so he added a little clock, which she immediately spotted,” Dumas reveals from the brand’s Parisian headquarters. “When we started to talk about beauty, I remember I brought that object out of my office and said: ‘The idea of beauty has been looking at

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