Scarves Hermès Scarf Identification

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momasaurus said:
Such great info, marietouchet. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am crazy for Goulandris' Flora Graeca, another 80's scarf, I think. Love those big flowers!
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Gouladris was / is a Greek expert of local flowers. So, her scarves have only local fare. Flora Graeca is Latin for Greek Flower - the title is singular although there are many on the silk

I dont recognize any of the flowers and they are not identified in the booklet which talks to the flowers of Olympus (Hermes speak for la di da flowers, not just any flowers). So there was a real story behind the silk

FG was done with the same colors for the flowers in all cws - the only thing that changed from cw to cw was the border & field. Some of the borders/fields are hard to tell apart - the mint green looks like beige in the wrong lighting so it is hard to tell the cws apart in photos only

Sorry no photos, I own a lot of scarves but the pink Pivoines is one of the only floral ones. I got that one becasue I grow Sarah Berhardt peonies - the light pink blowsy ones on the silk - in my garden.
 
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marietouchet said:
Gouladris was / is a Greek expert of local flowers. So, her scarves have only local fare. Flora Graeca is Latin for Greek Flower - the title is singular although there are many on the silk

I dont recognize any of the flowers and they are not identified in the booklet which talks to the flowers of Olympus (Hermes speak for la di da flowers, not just any flowers). So there was a real story behind the silk

FG was done with the same colors for the flowers in all cws - the only thing that changed from cw to cw was the border & field. Some of the borders/fields are hard to tell apart - the mint green looks like beige in the wrong lighting so it is hard to tell the cws apart in photos only

Sorry no photos, I own a lot of scarves but the pink Pivoines is one of the only floral ones. I got that one becasue I grow Sarah Berhardt peonies - the light pink blowsy ones on the silk - in my garden.
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I'm following this discussion on the floral scarves avidly! OT: I love Sarah Bernhardt peonies. The scent more than makes up for the spindly stems; it's wonderfully fragrant, IMHO :D
 
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I love mine , even though they flop due to weak stems mans come late in the season after the monsoons arrive here - they get beat down , I don't normally cut and take inside but am forced to for those lol
Glad you like the topic !
 
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marietouchet said:
Vauzelles was the author of the GINORMOUS flower series of scarves - Fleurs de Lotus, Pivoines & Roseraie. Compare to the current batch of floral scarves eg anything by C Henry - tee-tiny flowers.

There are excellentphotos of the folded FdL on ebay now :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEAUTIFUL-A...876?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20ff19039c
Not recommending scarf or seller, but great photos - WOW those petals are BIG

The large flower designs were probably because Gucci owned the floral scarf market in the 1970s with the Accornero delicate designs- eg Flora. So, Hermes did BIG flowers.

1970s flowers scarves were in restrained cws eg in the blush pink Pivoines . Pivoines and FdL were 1970s and started out in realistic colors - eg the real life Sarah Bernhardt pink peonies. But, were redone in the 1980s with brights.
Sorry, I have no photo of the Pivoines in a more aggressive cw - those peonies are 8 in across & very floral. You can google for Pivoines and see some of those cws.

Roseraie came along in the 1990s - probably mined from the archives, and done after the bulk of Vauzelles work. It not only had the big flowers but was only done in the aggressive cws of the 1990s . Lots of complementary - contrasty - color combos - green and purple , turquoise and mustard

The wood trellis on the Roseraie border kinda reduces the impact of the roses, but this is one of the more restrained cws

The other major rose scarf is Rosee - the flowers are smaller (more lifesize), there are fewer of them, and the flowers are done more accurately . Roseraie has more stylized roses, more modern ? Compare 2 cws of Rosee & Roseraie from the 1990s - brights but very different
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Wonderful info. I adore La Rosee and always have several bushes of roses growing in the garden. :)
 
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marietouchet said:
There is no way to tell from the photos , it could be a fake or homemade
Try going to the Hermes web site and looking for variants on Clic Clac , also recent booklets might shed some light
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I bought this at the Madison Avenue boutique. I just need to know the name of the pattern. And wondered if anyone was familiar with the type of beading they used. It's a beautiful dip dye, that's all I was buying at the time.
 
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audreylita said:
I bought this at the Madison Avenue boutique. I just need to know the name of the pattern. And wondered if anyone was familiar with the type of beading they used. It's a beautiful dip dye, that's all I was buying at the time.
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I do not know the name of this one, do you still have the receipt or laminated tag ?

H does variants, this Clic Clic has printed flowers on it, in addition to the beads. Cavalcadour Fleuri had additional flowers and embroidery. Dont know if there are beads - it does not say

http://france.hermes.com/la-maison-...dour-fleuri-100-cachemire-140cm-15-63145.html

I think the CF flowers are printed on, with embroidery on top of that (using the printing as guide)

Sometimes they call these expensive ones carres precieux - indicating , a scarf type, not a scarf title
 
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marietouchet said:
I do not know the name of this one, do you still have the receipt or laminated tag ?

H does variants, this Clic Clic has printed flowers on it, in addition to the beads. Cavalcadour Fleuri had additional flowers and embroidery. Dont know if there are beads - it does not say

http://france.hermes.com/la-maison-...dour-fleuri-100-cachemire-140cm-15-63145.html

I think the CF flowers are printed on, with embroidery on top of that (using the printing as guide)

Sometimes they call these expensive ones carres precieux - indicating , a scarf type, not a scarf title
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Is it a 90cm ?
They did a 90cm carre surteint precieux (scarf format type name ie embroidered) in 2011 in the Clic Clac design. The scarf title would be Clic Clac
 
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Thank you it is indeed the clic clac. It's folded in the special Hermes display box it came in so don't want to take it out right now but yes it is the shawl size scarf.

Thanks for your help with the name.
 
#1,408
audreylita said:
Thank you it is indeed the clic clac. It's folded in the special Hermes display box it came in so don't want to take it out right now but yes it is the shawl size scarf.

Thanks for your help with the name.
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Oh so sorry, I knew it was Clic Clac all along, but I got befuddled all those produits ephemeres (Hermes French term for one time items) have bizarre and non standard appelations eg Cavalcadour Fleuri vs Cavalcadour

Those produits ephemeres are so hard to keep up with , I do an awful job
 
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Will try to ask one more time, and also ask another one :)

1. When was Rencontre Oceane gavroche issued?
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2. Was ever Souvenirs de Paris issued in any other color but blue/white/red and is there were any earlier issues (before 1989)? And was the gavroche issued the same year?

Souvenirs%20de%20Paris.jpg

HUGE THANK YOU in advance!
 
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