Scarves Hermès scarf colors

[marietouchet]

The exact red of my label is a patented color used by one of my big customers , a major league industrial secret unless you go to trash and haul out one of their boxes and stick the label into a colorimeter , lol
Basically, it is just the red used to indicate fragile material on ups labels

 

[momasaurus]

I love this thread. Please don't feel like we are ignoring you. These conversations are fascinating!
Someday I would love to hear MT's thoughts (or anyone's) on why the current season's scarves look so flat. I was shocked to see some IRL when the online photos had looked so tempting. I know it has something to do with the color, the printing, this juxtaposition you mention, or depth or detail or something.
Anyway, I will try to post photos of scarf colors I like, if that's the aim of this thread!

 

[Jahna]

I love this thread. Please don't feel like we are ignoring you. These conversations are fascinating!
Someday I would love to hear MT's thoughts (or anyone's) on why the current season's scarves look so flat. I was shocked to see some IRL when the online photos had looked so tempting. I know it has something to do with the color, the printing, this juxtaposition you mention, or depth or detail or something.
Anyway, I will try to post photos of scarf colors I like, if that's the aim of this thread!

Hi momosaurus! So good to see you here. I was only whining because I want to encourage people to post, not just their favorite cw of certain scarves, but what they gravite toward JUST BECAUSE of the cw.

At the moment I am I love with jaune souffre, particularly when it is juxtaposed with pale pink. I continue to be in love with the cool and warm greys against certain colors.

It doesn’t have much to do with what I wear; it is more about the “surprise” of certain colors. For instance, I am not a fan of Animapolis, but was won over by one picture la.vida.fifi posted wearing it so that little spot of yellow in the corner was featured.

I salivate over color!

 

[marietouchet]

I love this thread. Please don't feel like we are ignoring you. These conversations are fascinating!
Someday I would love to hear MT's thoughts (or anyone's) on why the current season's scarves look so flat. I was shocked to see some IRL when the online photos had looked so tempting. I know it has something to do with the color, the printing, this juxtaposition you mention, or depth or detail or something.
Anyway, I will try to post photos of scarf colors I like, if that's the aim of this thread!

I do think the 2019SS and earlier colors have been trending towards flat at Hermes. The most obvious example is the evolution of the tattoo colors. The first ones were in brights - JUNGLE LOVE in bright red. Photos from Hermes.com. That was 2016SS. In 2018SS, the tattoos - CLIC CLAC - were noticeably dull versions of a murker wine red. That is a fair comparison - Thee spring collections two years apart. Spring is always perkier than fall.
Then 2018AW - ETRIERS - that is NOT even a Hermes-orange - it is closer to potiron - pumpkin. And the 2018AW green (also used 2019SS) is the famous Menthol - dull to me (and I love green) that looks like it has been washed out. And of course there are the new wash scarves that deliberately look washed out.
And black - hmmm - - impossible to show in a photo but most "black" scarves recently have two colors in them - noir and bleu noir - black and a bluish (faded out IMHO) black. The composite effect is to make the black areas look washed out not like the crisp black of 10 years ago.
Hermes has basically riffed each year on the Pantone colors doing their thing. To me, it is an obvious deliberate trend - Hermes blanded out the recent Pantone palettes. Why? Dunno. The 2019SS color of the year is a bright coral orange not dull pumpkin.- wasss up? They deliberately went dull.
My first guess is that they are trying to make the womens collection (all photos from the ladies silks below) more unisex so to sell the womens scarves to more men. After all the mens palette every year is pretty bland - blue-gray, gray-blue,gray-navy etc so Hermes has injected more of a mens palette into the womens collections late ? That is a guess but they have injected a bit more color into the means scarves at the same time - making the mens collection scarves more unisex as well.

 

[marietouchet]

Animapolis is another good example of color blanding
YES there are one or two bright cws - photos from Hermes.com - the classic saturated brights - cw 01 - the bright one below
But there are at least 3 monochrome cws - no saturation oir bright there - cw 13 white and pale blue - the impression is of a neutral cw IMHO
And there are 2 cws on the fence - not bland, but not bright - the Vieux Rose & Blue Cw 08 - with the blob of cobalt left center on the cat
So, I would say there there are only 2 classic bright cws (01 & 11), the rest are more subdued (08) and some are decidedly washed out (13), on balance, it sure looks like they are consciously going away from saturated palettes ?
IMHO the Pantone palette is brighter
https://www.pantone.com/color-intel...olor-trend-report-new-york-spring-summer-2019
But that is just my opinion

 

[Jahna]

Interesting that the three pantone “neutrals” + “jester red” and “terrarium moss” together almost sum up the colors of the “Fall Preview” that was/is? on the Hermès website.

CW 01 of Animapolis is the one that has the yellow in the lower left corner so well displayed with living.la.vida.fifi’s way of tying.

I guess I am not attracted to any of the CWs of Animapolis, although the art is fun. The colors are washed out; I would rather gaze happily at a big piece of Pantone “Fiesta”. What a luscious color! Probably exactly why I collected Fiesta ware from thrift stores when I was in college.

 

[Jahna]

The blue leopard is nice! I could live with that alone.

 

[Jahna]

I am probably REALLY LATE in finding this site, and the "bag" people undoubtedly know of it, but there is a great list of Hermès colors there under guides. They are bag colors, but, uhm, helpful to me...

https://baghunter.com/pages/hermes-color-guide

 

[marietouchet]

I am probably REALLY LATE in finding this site, and the "bag" people undoubtedly know of it, but there is a great list of Hermès colors there under guides. They are bag colors, but, uhm, helpful to me...

https://baghunter.com/pages/hermes-color-guide

Those are mostly leather colors eg Rouge Garance has never (?) been used on silk and here is a scarf with bougainvillier on it ie the cw name is bougainvillier blanc. Bougainvillier on silks is quite bright
Photo from hermes.com

 

[Jahna]

Speaking of subdued colors, I fell in love with this CW of "Danses des Indiens". It looks almost black and white, but has wonderful tones of grey-blue, tan, and a wonderful green, which is not "washed out", but looks happy in its own skin.

I am using Jan's picture..credit: Its-All-Goode
.

(I bought it from Jan). The background is actually white. I will post my pictures this weekend.

 

[marietouchet]

The recent bland palettes had me thinking about the 1970s palettes - earthtones, browns, no brights. Here is a bit from my 1970s EPERONS in teal - duller blues.
Compare to my PAVEMENTS ca early 2000s - bright lime and turq
There is about 30 years between the two blue scarves
The Hermes pallette of the 1970s was dull until Jean Louis Dumas took over ca 1978 - he brought in all the saturated 1980s - 1990s colors that seem to be going by the wayside these days.

 

[marietouchet]

Speaking of subdued colors, I fell in love with this CW of "Danses des Indiens". It looks almost black and white, but has wonderful tones of grey-blue, tan, and a wonderful green, which is not "washed out", but looks happy in its own skin.

I am using Jan's picture..credit: Its-All-Goode
.

(I bought it from Jan). The background is actually white. I will post my pictures this weekend.

Yes, yes, yes H did some amazing neutrals about 10 years back - like this one, I have a CHEVAUX DE FRANCE in "grey"but there is lilac, green , blue in there - amazing depth - none of which show up on my photos of the silk

 

[Jahna]

The recent bland palettes had me thinking about the 1970s palettes - earthtones, browns, no brights. Here is a bit from my 1970s EPERONS in teal - duller blues.
Compare to my PAVEMENTS ca early 2000s - bright lime and turq
There is about 30 years between the two blue scarves
The Hermes pallette of the 1970s was dull until Jean Louis Dumas took over ca 1978 - he brought in all the saturated 1980s - 1990s colors that seem to be going by the wayside these days.

Amazing difference in palettes! I have not done nearly the extensive research to compare across decades like you have MT; some of the old CWs do surprise me though. I just got out La Provence and looked at it clearly for the first time in a long time. Very rich colors.

 

[Purse FanGirl]

Animapolis is another good example of color blanding
YES there are one or two bright cws - photos from Hermes.com - the classic saturated brights - cw 01 - the bright one below
But there are at least 3 monochrome cws - no saturation oir bright there - cw 13 white and pale blue - the impression is of a neutral cw IMHO
And there are 2 cws on the fence - not bland, but not bright - the Vieux Rose & Blue Cw 08 - with the blob of cobalt left center on the cat
So, I would say there there are only 2 classic bright cws (01 & 11), the rest are more subdued (08) and some are decidedly washed out (13), on balance, it sure looks like they are consciously going away from saturated palettes ?
IMHO the Pantone palette is brighter
https://www.pantone.com/color-intel...olor-trend-report-new-york-spring-summer-2019
But that is just my opinion

I just received my Fuchsia colorway with the yellow hem. I don’t know the number of the colorway but is quite saturated and bright.

 

[Jahna]

Hi Purse FanGirl, Yes, that CW is definitely bright! I just went to look at it again, and it really is a fun scarf. I believe yours is CW11...