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Oh cavalla- both those moussies look like they are fabulous, even folded as they are!
LOVE THESE! I also believe the same as you, if it's meant to be....it's meant to be. (We are twins on your 90 orange/brown/yellow ZP.
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What a wonderful AS collection! You are a true ZP fan! and I had thought I had quite a few ZP but your collection crushes mine! Your philosophy of “if it’s meant to be” is something that rings true for me as well.
I just might keep an eye out. Like what Cavalla said if it’s meant to be then we will meet again!
You are a true ZP lover. Wonderful collection
Thank you! Not sure if it's lucky or unlucky that I haven't ventured out of scarf department back then, otherwise my wallet would have drained at an exponential rate (much earlier).
Thank you, dear bunnycat! They are! One is so easy to just grab and go and the other is a great pick-me-up!
LOVE THESE! I also believe the same as you, if it's meant to be....it's meant to be. (We are twins on your 90 orange/brown/yellow ZP.
Honored to be your ZP twin! You have a great collection of happy scarves!
I'm indeed a ZP fan and even more so an AS fan! Every design she made for H I feel I "need" it and I need multiples! 
I have more photos to come. 
On a side note, something that makes H so special to me is that with patience, what you fell in love with will always find its way to you. Either at another boutique or through resale market. They don't just vanish like other fashion items.
Here is my somewhat “behaved” collection. Both seasons I was traveling a lot so they’re all from different airports around the world. Not planned purchase. And it tells me when I plan my purchase of a season, the damage is usually much bigger than buying randomly! I probably would’ve gotten more JA and at least a couple of twillies and a gavroche if I was able to put together a list. 
I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in. 
(Eventually few others who were there to check out some art pieces came by to join the talk.) I had Jardin Anglais twilly on my bag for the event! 
Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
)
Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
She didn't bring the original cw that she submitted though!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax)
With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share. 
(Eventually few others who were there to check out some art pieces came by to join the talk.) I had Jardin Anglais twilly on my bag for the event! Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
)Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
She didn't bring the original cw that she submitted though!Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
)With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
That's lovely of you to write all this for us, thank you. I wish I could met her one day.I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in.
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Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
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Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
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With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
View attachment 3907609
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
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Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
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And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
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I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
It's very interesting to know that the designer is not in charge of the color work.
I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in.
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Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
View attachment 3907610
Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
View attachment 3907608
With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
View attachment 3907609
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
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Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
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And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
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I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
Wow Wen, how fabulous that you get to talk to her and hear all this interesting info, thank you for sharing! Also thanks for the beautiful pics!
And already some great intel on FW18, a men’s scarf, I like that!
I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in.
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Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
View attachment 3907610
Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
View attachment 3907608
With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
View attachment 3907609
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
View attachment 3907617
Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
View attachment 3907607
And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
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I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
thank you so much for sharing this!! it reads better than some pro interviews with in the magazines!
@seasounds @QueenieQ @Angelian @ksuromax I figured the best place to share this would be here with fans of her! 
@ksuromax You're too kind with your words. In rereading this now after posting it, I noticed typos and grammar errors!
Alas, much too late to edit it now. 
Oh well...
@ksuromax You're too kind with your words. In rereading this now after posting it, I noticed typos and grammar errors!
Alas, much too late to edit it now. Oh well...
Love her designs! Thanks for this. I follow her insta and saw that she would be speaking at the art exhibit today.I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in.
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Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
View attachment 3907610
Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
View attachment 3907608
With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
View attachment 3907609
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
View attachment 3907617
Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
View attachment 3907607
And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
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I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
I had the pleasure to attend a talk by Alice Shirley today on her designs for Hermes. Initially I was the only person there until the venue staff came to join in.
View attachment 3907623
Most of the talk was covered in this interview here.
She began working with Hermes in 2012 and she was invited to the factory in Lyon to see how the silks were printed. Each design is engraved by one person before it is then printed. She mentioned later on that there's now one person that engraves all her designs, someone whom she finally met recently for her latest design. She then talked a little bit about each design in chronological order. Zebra Pegasus is her very first design for Hermes and below is the original work that she submitted. (@cavalla you did good!
View attachment 3907610
Dans un Jardin Anglais is the next and it was inspired by the Indian miniature painting technique of gouache. This design took 6 months as each time she went back to Hermes they wanted her to add more details to it!
Next is Tyger Tyger and she did a lot of research to find out the plants and flowers of the natural habitat where tiger generally lives. She was going to submit the work to Hermes but was awake at 4am on the day of submission and decided to redraw the design for submission! Hermes took the second drawing and below is the original cw submitted. The initial design had the tiger laying horizontally instead with the jungle surrounding it. (@ksuromax
View attachment 3907608
With Under the Waves she had endangered species in mind since she's been working on that for a different organization. Since the brief from Hermes was underwater world, she decided that she wanted to highlight the endangered species of coral reefs with it.
View attachment 3907609
For Grr, her very first mens scarf the brief is a bear, but one that isn't too scary nor too cutesy. The bear has blue eyes as the head of menswear has beautiful blue eyes and had asked if she could have blue eyes for the bear.
View attachment 3907617
Appaloose des Steppes is her own creation as she wasn't given a titled brief for it. Most people think that Appaloosa is from Americas but a lady in New Zealand was convinced that it's from Central Asia. Read here. The background for the design is of traditional Kyrgyzstan rugs/textiles. Each one is a symbolic landscape. Some of the main traits of an Appaloosa horse are striped hooves and sparse manes. (Not all have black spots as some are black with white snowflakes she said.)
View attachment 3907607
And last but not least, Into the Canadian Wild was commissioned by Hermes of course and it was a really tight schedule as she had 6 weeks to complete it from conception to submission! In the brief she was told that they want no people in the design, all nature and no Winter scenes as people tend to think of Canada as a snowy wintery place. The original cw submitted is the exclusive one for Canada and it used 45 silk screens. (Lucky you if you own one of these!) Other cws used less silk screens. She was flown in for the launch of the silk and she said it felt really surreal that people were lining around the block to purchase the scarf and she sat for 5 hours at the store signing scarf boxes.
View attachment 3907616
I brought along a list of questions to ask as below:
How much input does Hermes have on what the designs?
It's rather broad. Sometimes she's given a brief but other times she isn't and is free to create whatever design she fancies.
Which is your favorite silk design thus far for Hermes?
Zebra Pegasus
Does she wear her Hermes scarves?
Yes, she tends to wear her cashmere silk scarves more than her 90 silks.
Which other Hermes artist's work does she like?
Nigel Peake and another new artist whose work will be coming soon.
How much input did she have regarding color schemes for the final silk?
She doesn't have any control over the various cws that are being produced. (Which makes sense as this is done by Bali Barret and each season has a different color palette.) They do however always include her original cw as one of the cws for the season.
How long does the design take from initial concept to production, and final issue?
On average 3 months (exceptions mentioned above).
Last but not least she shared there there will be a mens scarf from her for FW18, a wolf. That's all I'm allowed to share.
Thank you for sharing this. It must have been thrilling to meet her in person! Thank you for sharing these tidbits and pleasure with us. I've always felt quite connected to her work maybe because we started our H journey at the same time
It's even more exciting to see among the 6 original CWs she brought, I got 3 of them and almost got 2 of them.