Hermès

Hermès Kelly 28 Casaque Epsom

Epsom

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The piece in detail

In the vocabulary of Hermès, a casaque is a jockey's racing silk — and the Kelly Casaque borrows exactly that spirit, building the house's most ceremonial bag from panels of contrasting colour, the way silks are pieced for the track. It is a design that appears only in scattered seasonal editions, and it turns the Kelly's formality into something knowingly sporting. This Kelly 28 is cut in Epsom, the pressed calfskin whose fine, even grain holds the Sellier architecture with crisp precision and shrugs off the weather of daily use. Epsom also takes colour with particular clarity, which is precisely what a tri-colour bag demands: each panel reads clean, saturated and distinct, with the contrast stitched to millimetre accuracy. The 28 is the connoisseur's Kelly — large enough for a working day, elegant enough for the evening, and the size most requested and least offered at the boutique. Worn with neutrals it becomes the entire outfit; worn with colour it holds the conversation effortlessly. Casaque editions are produced in small numbers and never repeated; once a colourway sells through, it is gone, which is why they surface far less often than standard Kellys and command a devoted collector following. For a collector building a Kelly library, a Casaque is the chapter that distinguishes it from every other. Our example is store fresh, carrying the blind stamp Z, and presents exactly as it left the boutique. Its hardware is bright and unmarked, its corners crisp, its interior untouched. Every piece we offer is examined and authenticated by our specialists before it is listed. The bag can be viewed by appointment at our Chelsea Harbour showroom, reserved through our personal shoppers, or sent by worldwide insured delivery to wherever you happen to be.

Inspected by hand in our London workroom. Private viewings by appointment.
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