This is a brand-new color launched by Hermès in 2025 — a unique shade of grey, exceptionally sophisticated. Shebag’s handcraft workshop was among the very first to complete its replica.

Hermès’s Togo leather comes from Europe, primarily Germany and France — notably from Weinheimer Leder in Germany, as well as from Hermès’s own tanneries and a select network of European suppliers. After years of making Hermès-inspired replicas, Shebag can only admire Hermès’s unparalleled leather management system — a fully integrated structure that ensures the brand always secures the world’s finest hides.

Shebag, of course, cannot build or invest in its own tannery, but we have our own advantages. Through long-term partnerships with European leather suppliers, we, too, gain access to top-tier hides within the supply chain. Because Shebag purchases in smaller quantities, we can afford to choose the highest-grade, most expensive leathers. Hermès, by contrast, must prioritize volume stability. We simply select the best.

Hermès’s color-tinting craftsmanship is considered the soul of the brand — often described within the industry as “the alchemy of leather.” This process is highly confidential, yet Shebag is deeply familiar with it.

Rather than using a standard pigment coat, Hermès relies on penetrative dyeing (teinture pénétrante), allowing the dye to permeate the leather fibers instead of sitting on the surface. This ensures the color remains consistent through bending, wear, and friction — with no cracking or visible fading.

The technical core of Hermès’s color work includes multi-stage penetration and manual hue adjustment (réglage manuel de la nuance). Each dye bath is temperature-controlled (around 40–60 °C) and timed precisely; after each immersion, the leather must “breathe” for several hours before proceeding to the next layer. This guarantees that pigment molecules bond with collagen fibers instead of accumulating superficially. Hermès’s colorists manually inspect every hide for tone, sheen, and reflection angle — only those with less than 1 ΔE of color variance are approved. This process depends almost entirely on human expertise and typically requires more than ten years of experience.

In short, Hermès is the king of handbags. Any replica atelier aspiring to achieve true excellence must first master Hermès — once you understand Hermès thoroughly, recreating any other brand becomes infinitely easier.