Design Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry share more than just the same job. Maison Hermès’ design duo move as two parts of the same brain, whose innovative ideas take shape as enduring forms. Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry came into this world quite similarly. “We were born in the same hospital,” says Fabry. “And we lived two streets apart all our life,” adds Perelman. The pair’s childhood homes were just west of Paris, along the Seine River in Neuilly-sur-Seine.