The Siegfried Blanche Hermès cover for 10 Men Magazine‘s 64th issue is, the publication confirms, the penultimate in a series of covers for an issue themed around future, legacy, and heritage, three words that have, in recent seasons, become something close to a manifesto for the houses represented inside it.
Shot by Ferry van der Nat and styled by Dan May, the cover places Blanche in full Hermès leather. There is something appropriately considered about that pairing: Hermès leather does not perform. It simply exists, with a weight and a hand that synthetic alternatives have spent decades failing to approximate. On a cover framed around heritage, the choice reads less as styling and more as argument.
The Full Cast Behind the Siegfried Blanche Hermès Cover Shoot
The shoot itself draws on a substantial ensemble. Alongside Blanche (represented by Garcons by Gervais) the cast includes Luca Longhurst, Gianni Vasseux, Bai Ruien, Artem Dubikin, and Guillaume de Saint Phalle. The houses range across the issue’s editorial pages: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Prada, Loewe, John Varvatos, Caruso, Zegna, and Piacenza 1733. Grooming was handled by Alexander van der Heide, with casting by Adam Hindle.
It is the kind of line-up that rewards a closer look at the credits. Piacenza 1733 (the Biella-based mill that has been producing fabric since its name suggests) sharing pages with Loewe and Prada is not an editorial accident. The issue’s theme demands that kind of range: the very new alongside the very old, the commercial alongside the quietly specialist.
What the Rest of Issue 64 Holds
The final cover for Issue 64, 10 Magazine reports, belongs to Habib Masovic, shot by Josh Hight and styled by Garth Allday Spencer. Where the van der Nat shoot leans into leather’s heft and the particular severity of a single house worn head to toe, the Masovic cover closes out the issue with its own distinct visual logic.
Elsewhere in the issue, 10 Magazine’s editor’s letter confirms that Paul Kircher wears Dior for another of the issue’s covers. Dior appearing twice across the cover portfolio, once on Blanche in the ensemble shoot, once on Kircher for his own dedicated cover, speaks to the house’s current foothold in the men’s market, a position that has been built gradually and is now, evidently, cover-worthy across multiple contexts in a single issue.
The breadth of that cover portfolio is worth sitting with. Four or five distinct cover shoots for a single issue, each with its own photographer, stylist, and lead model, is not the economics of a magazine coasting. It suggests editorial investment in men’s fashion coverage at a moment when that investment is not universally shared.
10 Men Issue 64 (titled Future, Legacy, Heritage) reaches newsstands on 25 September. The covers, taken together, make a reasonable case that all three words are doing real work in the fashion conversation right now, rather than functioning as the usual seasonal window-dressing. Legacy is Hermès leather. Future is the question of who wears it, and how.
