--- title: Hermès Now Selling Skateboards for a Cool $3000 description: French luxury label Hermès has joined other high fashion brands' embrace of skate culture by offering skateboards that retail for $3000. canonical: https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-17T20:55:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:36.300Z og:title: Yes, You Can Now Really Buy a $3000 Skateboard From Hermès og:description: Steadily trending og:url: https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6b8635800e623c/6988da2eab6d773dbb6af728/hermes-skateboards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: FRANCE-TRANSPORT-AVIATION-AIRPORT-CDG og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Yes, You Can Now Really Buy a $3000 Skateboard From Hermès twitter:description: Steadily trending twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6b8635800e623c/6988da2eab6d773dbb6af728/hermes-skateboards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Now Spring For a $3,000 Hermès Luxury Skateboard > Sponsored content. 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AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images) AFP—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 17, 2017 8:55 PM UTC [French luxury label Hermès](http://time.com/4182246/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-gold/) has joined other high fashion brands’ embrace of skate culture by offering skateboards that retail for a cool $3,000, a price point that would probably appeal to the same kind of fashion-forward consumer who would spring for [Raf Simons’ $200 personalized duct tape.](http://time.com/4901980/raf-simons-duct-tape/) The skate decks are made out of “light beech wood with a noble maple veneer” and were designed by Henri d’Origny, Hermès’ artistic director. The models come in archival designs from the house ranging from “Bouclerie Modern” and “Sangles en zigzag” and start at $2,900. Fashion’s infatuation with skateboarding has been steadily trending for the past few seasons, as evidenced by the celebrity-approved [Louis Vuitton x Supreme collaboration](https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-louis-vuitton-collaboration-2017) and designer Demna Gvasalia sending [Thrasher sweatshirts down the Vetements runway](http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/thrasher-hm-are-fighting-over-the-skate-magazines-flame-font); whether or not you’ll actually spot an Hermès board on the streets of New York City’s skateboarding mecca Lower East Side, however, remains to be seen. It will be sold at [various Hermès boutiques](http://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/08/16/hermes-skateboard-longboard/) around the world and online starting late September. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/"},"headline":"You Can Now Spring For a $3,000 Hermès Luxury Skateboard","datePublished":"2017-08-17T20:55:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:36.300Z","description":"Yes, really","url":"https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","fashion"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6b8635800e623c/6988da2eab6d773dbb6af728/hermes-skateboards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6b8635800e623c/6988da2eab6d773dbb6af728/hermes-skateboards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FRANCE-TRANSPORT-AVIATION-AIRPORT-CDG","caption":"FRANCE-TRANSPORT-AVIATION-AIRPORT-CDG","creditText":"AFP—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4905616/hermes-skateboard/","name":"You Can Now Spring For a $3,000 Hermès Luxury Skateboard"}}]}] ```