Your Friday French Fashion Report: Hermès Spring Summer Collection 2011

Quite simply the most fabulous, chic, and hot hot hot collection of Paris Fashion Week this season is the Hermès Spring/Summer Collection for 2011. Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier artfully blends his talent for dressing women with the foundation of the Hermès tradition; leather goods. Being an aficionado of bondage himself, Gaultier (for once) uses discretion with this collection. The suggestion of such is married beautifully with the gaucho, the most feminine of silhouettes created with sumptious fabrics and flawless design, accented with strips of leather in all the right places. Our heroine is a confident self assured woman; a female Zorro, an accomplished horsewoman, a sensual seductress. My inner fashionista can't help but imagine the daring backless skirt from this collection paired with the daring backless blouse from YSL - ooh la la! (see blog archives) So pour yourself a glass of sangria, imagine for a moment you and Antonio Banderas, and crank up the AC for the hottest show in town; Hermès + Gaultier!