# The Resort Sandal Gets a Platform This Summer on the Riviera > The Hermes Oran, a summer staple for nearly three decades, has traded last year's bold black and orange for softer beige and cream, while platform silhouettes from houses including Prada are turning up on the same Riviera pool decks. - Source: Monaco Day - Canonical URL: https://monacoday.com/en/article/resort-sandal-platform-riviera-summer-2026 - Author: Antoine Vasseur - Section: Fashion & Style - Published: 2026-08-10T07:45:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-10T07:45:00.000Z - Tags: Resort Style, Hermes Oran, Summer Sandals - French edition: https://monacoday.com/article/resort-sandal-platform-riviera-summer-2026 --- The Hermes Oran has been a fixture of European summers for nearly thirty years, and the 2026 season has not retired it so much as recoloured it. Last year's bolder black and orange pairings have given way to softer beige and cream tones, the kind of quiet palette shift that keeps a design current without asking anyone to abandon a shoe they already know fits. Sitting alongside the Oran on the same pool decks this year are platform silhouettes, with Prada among the houses pushing the style, a break from the flat resort slide that has dominated the category for most of the past decade. Reporting on the season has also pointed to a broader move toward saturated colour, red, butter yellow and deep green among the shades turning up most often. On the French Riviera specifically, where a beach club's dress code rarely runs stricter than smart resortwear, sandals do double duty in a way a more formal shoe cannot: the same pair that works for a lounge chair at a private beach club needs to hold up for lunch afterward without a change of shoes. That dual purpose is part of why a design like the Oran, understated enough for both settings, has outlasted so many shorter lived resort trends. None of this is really about any single shoe. It is a reminder that resortwear on the Riviera moves in small, seasonal recolourings rather than wholesale reinventions, the same silhouettes returning summer after summer in a slightly different shade, which is exactly the kind of low risk update a club full of regulars, wearing the same brands they wore the year before, tends to reward. --- Originally published by Monaco Day. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://monacoday.com/en/article/resort-sandal-platform-riviera-summer-2026.