Would you please introduce yourselves?

We are Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau, a couple of artists who have been working together since graduating from art school in France in 1999. We have been collaborating with Hermès for several years now, creating a number of short films and invitation cards, as well as drawings for Le Monde d’Hermès magazine. Our collaborations with Hermès always take us down new paths. For example, the format of the booklet presenting Hermès’s 2025 autumn-winter objet collection was born out of our discussions with the project team, who had the wonderful idea of drawing all the objects using a single line that continues from page to page.

What does drawing mean to you?

We really like the word “divagation” when talking about drawing. To us, divagation means letting your imagination run wild with a pencil and a sheet of paper. We sometimes have “divagation sessions” in the late afternoon with a bottle of wine and some good music. That’s when the best ideas come to us. In the past, drawing was our only means of expression. When we left art school, we had no money or studio, and the only way to express ourselves was through drawing. So we spent whole days imagining projects with just pencil and paper—and we never stopped!

Tell us about the window display you designed for Ginza Maison Hermès.

This is the first time we designed a Hermès window display, and it was quite an exciting experience. We started with a childhood memory from when I was about 10 years old. At school, we were asked to draw the inside of our bodies, and I remember drawing round, coloured shapes moving around in all directions—very influenced by Barbapapa, I imagine! I had a very poetic idea of the inside of my body.

This memory is the starting point for part of the installation in the Hermès window display. We imagined two scanner-like screens revealing the activity inside the body. They show very simple, even childlike animated films in colour.

The rest of the installation is in black and white. We really like black and white because it allows people to imagine their own colours—like a colouring book. It also allows the Hermès objets in the window to appear even more striking and full of life than usual. But the original reason our drawings are in black and white is because Petra and I couldn’t agree on the colours. We decided it was better to avoid conflict and stick with black and white!

This year’s Hermès theme is “Drawn to Craft”. What would be your description of a Hermès drawing?

You only need to look at Hermès’s Instagram account to see that it is difficult to describe a Hermès drawing. There are so many of them. The world of Hermès is interpreted by many artists, and that is what makes it so rich.

Any specific memories related to Japan?

In the 1980s, like an entire generation, we were brought up on Japanese cartoons: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Barbapapa. I think that all this culture has found its way into our work. Today, we are fans of yōkai, those supernatural creatures that are very present in Japanese culture. We plan to leave with a tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog) ornament in our suitcases to watch over our garden.