With her new recycling project, Hermes descendant Pascale Mussard upholds a tradition of eco-awareness at the French design house

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You could call pascale mussard the livingrnconscience of Hermes. The great-great-great-granddaughter of the humble saddlemaker Thierry Hermes, Mussard is a fighter, determined to continue her family's 172-year history of balancing tradition and modernity, with a keen eye toward sustainability.rnModern luxury is "reinvention," says Mussard, 52, whose current project is a decidedly upscale take on recycling: skins that used to be discarded because of tiny flaws (Hermes makes all the parts of each Birkin bag from a single skin) and leather leftovers will be remade into objects of beauty. "My playground is Hermes," says Mussard, who grew up as something of an Eloise of the ateliers. "Let's see what we can reinvent."