Imagination

There is a peculiar attitude, here at the beginning of the 21st century. On the one hand, we agree things aren’t fine. On the other hand, there’s a widespread feeling that there’s nothing to be done .

My first responsibility at Hermes is really to accompany all the creative studios to produce collections for Hermes season after season. However, in order to that, I need to keep my mind open and I need to somehow... foresee what is about to come, I need to dream.

So dreaming is an essential part of my work. But my first responsibility is to work... See more

There is indirect evidence to support this idea. For instance, individuals tend to act in a way that is consistent with or constrained by how they have imagined themselves in those situations (Johnson and Sherman, 1990), implying that some record of that simulation influences later behavior. There is typically a high correspondence of stated... See more

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic