In 1951, Émile Hermès handed over control of the company to one of his sons-in-law, Robert Dumas. Source: Hermès Dumas had been the one to introduce belts and bags to the brand for the first ...

Jean-Louis Robert Frédéric Dumas, who also used the last name Dumas-Hermès, was born on Feb. 2, 1938, in Paris. His father, Robert, had married one of the four daughters of Émile-Maurice ...

Thomas Kaplan, billionaire founder of the conservation charity Panthera, and Pierre-Alexis Dumas ... including a set of three Robert Dallet lithographs in an Hermès calfskin portfolio with ...

No, it started in 1985, when Dumas’s father, Jean-Louis Dumas, then at the helm of Hermès, discovered the work of Robert Dallet, a French animal artist whose specialty was big cats drawn from ...

The fourth generation of Hermès was synonymous with the Dumas family. Robert Dumas took the head executive and artistic role in 1951 after the death of grandfather Émile-Maurice. By this point ...