Hermès bags available in China without mandatory add-on purchases? Once-aloof sales associates now actively courting customers? Has luxury royalty finally bowed?On October 22, Hermès reported its slowest quarterly sales growth since early 2020. Its CFO described China, its largest single market, as “very difficult,” while reaffirming plans to invest there. Meanwhile, BrandAI finds that secondhand prices for the Birkin and Kelly have plummeted, with premium markups shrinking sharply. The entire luxury industry is facing massive headwinds, and its previous logic has broken down: the belief that you could raise prices indefinitely and customers would always eagerly fawn over you, even if you catered to a top-tier client base, no longer holds true.

Hermès International reported no sales growth in the region that includes China last quarter, a sign the Birkin bag maker isn’t immune to the spending curbs affecting Chinese shoppers

Hermes Q3 2026 Earnings - Total Revenue: Up 4.3% At Constant FX To €4.10B (est €4.12B) - Leather Goods And Saddlery Sales: Up 10.8% At Constant FX To €1.91B (est €1.89B) - Ready-To-Wear And Accessories Sales: Down 2.0% At Constant FX To €1.14B (est €1.18B) - Q3 Sales Growth At Constant FX: Total Asia +1.9%, Americas +8.8%, Total Europe +7.2%, Other -4.5% - End-Sept Currency Fluctuations Had Negative Impact Of About €310M On Revenue

Hermes Agent now has an official plugin for @MeshyAI. Ask Hermes to make a 70m poly treasure chest for Godot, or to turn a photo of a mug into a model you can print, and it does the job through Meshy's MCP server. In Hermes Desktop the models render in chat, rigged characters animate inline, and a gallery stores every model and prompt. On messaging apps, Hermes sends a short preview video so you can create on the go.

Hermes Fleet build log 🪽 My Hermes is grinding through every open PR right now. - Step 1: get the repo caught up to the dev build. - Step 2: work through the TestFlight 98 feedback for build 99. - Step 3: build 100 goes to the App Store. If you sent a PR, it's getting looked at. 🫡

Hermes Wingtips #105#: trust: untrusted want your Hermes Agent to ask before it changes anything through an MCP server? `trust: untrusted` add it under that server in config.yaml. tools the server marks read-only run as normal, and every other tool waits for your /approve.