The French luxury house Hermes released its 2020 autumn/winter collection recently in its Shanghai store. With the theme of Innovation in the Making, the new collection includes scarves, leather goods, ties, belts, shoes and accessories.

One eye-catching 90-centimeter square scarf called Formula Chic features an antique car on one side and a Formula One racing car on the other.

The women's "Hermes Della Cavalleria" Tadelakt and the men's "Haut a Courroies 40 Western" Togo both were inspired by western cowboys from the United States, reminding people of Hermes' original ties to horsemanship.

Nathalie Rolland-Huckel designs Passifolia pottery and porcelain dishes and bottles. Green trees, leaves and flowers are painted on the dishes to create the impression of a lush rain forest on the dinner table.

The perfume created by Christine Nagel was inspired by the gardens in Venice.

Commenting on the theme, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermes, said, "Whether in the literal or figurative sense, innovative gestures are at the heart of what we do in our house.

"Innovative gestures are a bit tautological where Hermes is concerned. All too often we picture the artisan as engaged in a process of doing the same thing time and time again. However, this image equates the artisan with a machine and ignores the profoundly free, poetic and unpredictable nature of his or her action.

"Machines may carry out virtual or real programs but, in ways unlike the human beings who conceive them. Only human beings are endowed with that aptitude which Rousseau called perfectibility. "