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I enjoyed reading your thoughts on this coming season and the past few ones. Recent cws with pastel palettes have given me a lot of pause (imo, dark, saturated colours suit me better so will be glad to see new cws). I heard this AW will be more substantial, colour-wise. But, unfortunately, I think the trend of re-issues/mash-ups and teeny-tiny prints will continue..Sorry to bring a bit of a downer into proceedings - I'm as desperate for solid information as everyone else here - but after a glimmer of hope with Last Night I find I'm just not in tune with the aesthetic of the silk collection. For me the baobab flower would have been enough - what dangerous drug were they on to stick a cat's face in the middle of it? To me it just looks ridiculous. Over the last few seasons there have been a number of quite simple-looking avant-guard designs which if you don't care about the vagaries of modern art are easy to ignore ( Natalie Pasquier previously, Charpentier this season ) or the other string of designs are so busy they just give me a headache looking at them (both the Goose Game and anything by Pierre Marie). To add insult to injury Hermes persist in taking perfectly good designs like Della Cavalleria mash them up with lines and hatching or add four different but equally discordant borders. I just find that a lot of the silk collection is irritating rather than intriguing - I know this says a lot about me and my outlook on art and high end fashion and I was keeping quiet about it but I found I was not alone and my local boutique's buyer despaired of this forthcoming A/W season and found it very difficult to select enough stock for the period up to Christmas.
Obviously having said this we're now all going to be deluged with a long list of handsome designs in strongly attractive colourways! Let's hope - the colours have at least veered away from the pastel washouts of spring so I refuse to give up hope. I only found my ideal Spring/Summer scarf in May and that was tucked away unheralded in the men's collection - it's never easy being an Hermes obsessive and I suppose I like it that way
Sorry to bring a bit of a downer into proceedings - I'm as desperate for solid information as everyone else here - but after a glimmer of hope with Last Night I find I'm just not in tune with the aesthetic of the silk collection. For me the baobab flower would have been enough - what dangerous drug were they on to stick a cat's face in the middle of it? To me it just looks ridiculous. Over the last few seasons there have been a number of quite simple-looking avant-guard designs which if you don't care about the vagaries of modern art are easy to ignore ( Natalie Pasquier previously, Charpentier this season ) or the other string of designs are so busy they just give me a headache looking at them (both the Goose Game and anything by Pierre Marie). To add insult to injury Hermes persist in taking perfectly good designs like Della Cavalleria mash them up with lines and hatching or add four different but equally discordant borders. I just find that a lot of the silk collection is irritating rather than intriguing - I know this says a lot about me and my outlook on art and high end fashion and I was keeping quiet about it but I found I was not alone and my local boutique's buyer despaired of this forthcoming A/W season and found it very difficult to select enough stock for the period up to Christmas.
Obviously having said this we're now all going to be deluged with a long list of handsome designs in strongly attractive colourways! Let's hope - the colours have at least veered away from the pastel washouts of spring so I refuse to give up hope. I only found my ideal Spring/Summer scarf in May and that was tucked away unheralded in the men's collection - it's never easy being an Hermes obsessive and I suppose I like it that way
I have to agree with you about the baobab flower scarf with the cat head in it.... I just don’t get itAlso agree about all of the mashups and remixes of late, not a fan AT all
That’s just how I feel.
Scarfies, I think we can list a few scarf names now:
90cm
Giant scarves (silk and CSGM)
- Acte III, Scėne I, La Clairière
- Baobab Cat
- Della Cavalleria Finesse
- (Flowers and small people)
- (Goose game)
- La Serpentine
- Le Tour du Monde
- Lettres au Carré
- Manufacture de Boucleries - reissue
- Pani La Shar Pawnee - reissue
Men's collection
- Jeu de Omnibus Remix - reissue
- (H)
- (Map)
- Mythiques Phoenix Coloriage - reissue
- Awoooo
- Brazilian Horses
- Last Night (by Rybaltchenko)
Please add what you discover!
And there's the name of the rose CSGM! Thank you, dear Croisette!
Done!litchi, please add the Baobab Cat scarf as a gavroche. Thanks!!
You're welcome! Glad you reminded me.Thanks!!
I know we're all just waiting. It's often this way. First, tidbits of info, then flood of photos, some "I don't like it", then pretty mod shots, lots of "Wow I love it!", "Oh my poor money tree!" 
, lots more mod shots, the predictable "Is it too much to get both/3 cw's/all cw's?", and finally, a chorus of "Get both/ Surely you're not going to leave 1 cw out from that set"! 
@croisette I'm also looking forward to how pretty H makes this CSGM, especially with the cw's they have for AW.
