Artist Volodymyr Manzhos, WaOne Interesni Kazki, designed the Hermès fashion house’s windows. The Artists Windows project decorated the Hermès New Store at Kansai Airport in Japan. Why did the French fashion house with revenues of over €10 billion invite Manjos to collaborate, and how much the work on the windows may cost.
“We’re thrilled,” Hermès art barrister Denis Schmitz told artist Vladimir Manjos about the collaboration’s result: two window displays for the Hermès New Store boutique at Japan’s Kansai Airport. One installation depicts a musician playing a nighttime tune with a lantern, and the other is a beach. Manjos, known as WaOne Interesni Kazki, worked on the project for 14 months.
Manzhos first tried his hand at window design in 2021, decorating the windows of Kyiv’s central store. Before that, Interesni Kazki – the duo Wayne (Vladimir Manzhos) and AEC (Alexey Bordusov) – had been winning the attention of the global public for more than a decade.
“We were recognized as artists in Europe and then in America,” says Manjos.
He currently has a solo exhibition at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Paris. In January 2024, a solo exhibition was held at New York’s Sapar Contemporary Art Gallery.
