I’m trying to be calm,” says Pierre-Alexis Dumas, 53, the artistic director of French luxury house Hermès, at the company’s headquarters in Paris’s 8th arrondissement. “But in my 25 years working at Hermès and my 50 years in my family, I’ve not witnessed many new métiers.” He’s referring to the company’s first proper foray into makeup, with the launch of Rouge Hermès, a line of lipsticks. It is the result of two years of development and at least a decade and a half of pondering before that. Recalling the time when the house launched a perfume named Rouge Hermès, in 2000, Dumas says, “I think I was the one who suggested...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2020 13:31 UTC