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Hermes (designer)

CEO of Hermes Patrick Thomas answers questions from the press during the first store opening of Hermes' high-end Chinese designer brand Shang Xia in Shanghai on September 16, 2010. France's Hermes is launching a bold experiment as its high-end Chinese designer brand Shang Xia debuts, underlining China's growing importance to luxury goods companies.

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Hermes(pronounced /ˈhɝːmiːz/; Greek Ἑρμῆς) is the Messenger of the Gods in Greek mythology. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunning of thieves and liars. His symbols include the tortoise, the cock, the winged sandals, and the caduceus. The analogous Roman deity is Mercury.

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