Scarves Scarf Of The Day 2019 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[ChocolatChaud]

I have to dig back further in my archive pics for this next one (and it's long... sorry!)

When I first bought pocket squares and my initial 90cm scarves, I didn't give much more thought to it other than did I like the design and did I like the color (and as @Cookiefiend says....the "sales goggles" were usually on looking for bargains). But as time went one and I noticed which scarves I reached for versus ones I didn't. The thing the ones that tend(ed) to stay in the drawer have in common are large empty borders. For the way I tie scarves (quickly and my go to is often a Bova knot these days) it makes no sense at all for me to be showcasing a 2" wide empty edge. So most of my scarves with empty borders have moved on, and even if I like a newer design or even contemplating an older design (like a FauSdeV I got in briefly), the FIRST thing I remind myself is that blank borders are a no go for me. So even a sought after design like the FauSdeV doesn't make the cut these days. Now, I am more likely to go for edge to edge patterns like GPduF or Cosmographia, or Under the Waves which have a lot of areas I can focus on, being asymmetric and having multiple focal points on the scarf.
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@bunnycat love your style! You and @Cookiefiend got me interested in gavroches (another slippery slope)!

 

[Winter4]

Fleurs de Giverny

Thank you.

 

[Jbizzybeetle]

scarf Mail: new color tryout and really like it! thanks to @Bova123 for pm-ing her past model shots as i watched this go on-off-on (cheaper!) the bay. Sieste du Paradis reminds me of the one time my dad took me fishing below the “mesa cliffs” of the West Texas caprock, an extensive mesa / geological land-level break early Spanish explorers called “llano estacado,” the staked plains.
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My most favorite CW in SdP is the white cliffs and green fonds, but that comes in only the CSGM(?).

OK editing myself here: fav SdP: white cliffs, green pond & sky, rose fronds/leaves/needles/?. duh, i think my brain left town b4 I did.

 

[momasaurus]

I have to dig back further in my archive pics for this next one (and it's long... sorry!)

When I first bought pocket squares and my initial 90cm scarves, I didn't give much more thought to it other than did I like the design and did I like the color (and as @Cookiefiend says....the "sales goggles" were usually on looking for bargains). But as time went one and I noticed which scarves I reached for versus ones I didn't. The thing the ones that tend(ed) to stay in the drawer have in common are large empty borders. For the way I tie scarves (quickly and my go to is often a Bova knot these days) it makes no sense at all for me to be showcasing a 2" wide empty edge. So most of my scarves with empty borders have moved on, and even if I like a newer design or even contemplating an older design (like a FauSdeV I got in briefly), the FIRST thing I remind myself is that blank borders are a no go for me. So even a sought after design like the FauSdeV doesn't make the cut these days. Now, I am more likely to go for edge to edge patterns like GPduF or Cosmographia, or Under the Waves which have a lot of areas I can focus on, being asymmetric and having multiple focal points on the scarf.

Only a few older scarves with borders have made the culls and that is Phaeton (since it is 60 years old) and I almost always wear it bias folded, Cosmos (colors are too nice to let it go right now), Les Tambours (the drums are so well done!) and Paridaiza. I have NO IDEA why it keeps making the cut because it goes against several "rules" that I tend to operate by now.... but it does!

Here are Phaeton, Paridaiza and Les Tambours:
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Now my preference (for 90s and 45x) is edge to edge when possible:

GP du F
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Animapolis
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Toutocizo pocket square from the men's dept
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On the other hand...it appears I have no issues with large or empty borders in large formats....

Kachinas (I think I'm on like week 7 or 8 now with it for theme matching... )
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Parures de Sables
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Karnak
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I think "wide border panic" attacks everyone eventually. So many of the older designs have gi-normous empty borders. And people wore such conservative knots and ties back then, didn't they? The "looks" are certainly different that what we're going after now. As for your Paraiza - I love every picture you post of it, so DO NOT ever think of rehoming it! It is so cute on you.
And those moussies are fabulous~

 

[bunnycat]

I am the same! Don't like empty borders at all. Luckily I came to that lesson with my very first 90 carre, the S/S''19 Double Sangles. After that, either graphical borders or edge-to-edge designs only. That's why I've avoided this season's Jungle Love Rainbow, gorgeous though it is...

I know! I love the JL rainbow, but I think if I ever find a JL that works for me it’ll be giant size.

Thank you for showing how you tied it. It looks awesome and I must try it


This is positively stunning! So unexpected and dramatic... And, I know exactly what CW you’re referring to and it’s the giant silk.... I think I’ve finally decided I want a SaP 140 and this is one of the CWs I’m considering


Thank you so much!


I feel the same... I’ve also gravitated toward denser designs that cover the entire square, but haven’t totally dismissed wider blank borders as in my recent JL Rainbow and BdG Shadow. Your Phaeton is a treasure. Did you finally get a Cosmographia?


Thank you so much! Actually, between my first purchase in 2006 and the launch of my H obsession in 2015, I did buy other brands and DH gifted me two H scarves... And I borrowed from mom and a globetrotting scarf loving friend. But, yes, the H collecting bug truly bit me after that Paris trip almost 5 years ago


Awww... Thanks so very much!


Thank you so much! And, it’s funny that my mom loves gavroches and to fold a 90 multiple tines to make it smaller, and my daughter hates 90s, preferring the giant triangles and shawls... and, also the opposite by favoring gavroches as well... and I’ve learned from both of them.

Thank you fifi! No Cosmographia yet, a few other things ended up sneaking in front of one, but I may still end up with one some time.

so much going on with Les Tambours, jacket and shirt—and you do it all so well!!! underSCORE the brilliance of balancing wide borders against background same/similar color!

Thank you Jbizzy! Tambous is one I almost alway bias fold to show the drum details. they are pretty amazing.

@bunnycat love your style! You and @Cookiefiend got me interested in gavroches (another slippery slope)!

oh noez CC! And thank you! (They really are great for hot weather though!)

I think "wide border panic" attacks everyone eventually. So many of the older designs have gi-normous empty borders. And people wore such conservative knots and ties back then, didn't they? The "looks" are certainly different that what we're going after now. As for your Paraiza - I love every picture you post of it, so DO NOT ever think of rehoming it! It is so cute on you.
And those moussies are fabulous~

Lol- I know you are right! The wide border makes much more sense when you think that’s they were often used as a head covering or a jaunty bias fold and square knot so you would mainly see the center...but definitely times have changed! And thank you kindly. I do love my moussies!

 

[bunnycat]

I must mention my mother as an important part of my scarf collecting journey. She always loved scarves of all designs, especially H scarves. But, when I was young, I avoided scarves like the plague because I associated them with older ladies like my mom.
Oh, the memories of trips to Paris where she asked me to choose something from the Hermès store and I would select a bottle of perfume! If I could only go back in time I would slap myself into shape
My first scarf purchase took place on a trip to Spain in 2006 where I passed by the Hermès store and they happened to have Spanish-themed ones. So, I purchased Aline Honoré’s Le Jardin d’Andalousie: not to wear, but as a souvenir of the trip and as a piece to frame. I also bought my Sis a blue Hola Flamenca because she adores flamenco dancing and cobalt blue. But she asked me to either return it or keep it because she was not into scarves. I kept it also as art to frame.
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Then, a few years later I started borrowing Mom’s scarves as my style evolved and finally it was on a trip to Paris in 2015 that I first purchased an Hermès scarf to actually wear: Ex Libris a Carreaux. The colors and clever disguised ex libris motif killed me.
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As soon as I got home after that trip I read an article about the special edition Promenade a Versailles scarf. We had just visited Versailles and I didn’t think twice and ordered it. All these scarves were very vibrant and strong colors featuring red are still favorites.
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I had no local H store nearby so I discovered the H website and ordered my first Flamingo Party on the website.
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Then I discovered that one could find scarves on ebay and other reseller sites and found some older treasures like British Heraldry, Brazil, Feux d’Artifice, Orgauphone and what became my obsession: Kermit Oliver designs, especially Kachinas. A constant in my life is that I gave my DD a Kachinas Giant triangle in the summer and just got a Pani carre wash for Thanksgiving.
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After discovering resellers I thought I would seldom buy directly from Hermes until I saw Parures de Samourais on the H website. It was PdS that brought me to my newly opened local H store for the first time in Spring 2017. I knew I wanted CW5, but was blown away by the other CWs. So, researching the design online led me to TPF where I lurked for months until I finally dared to post on SOTD In Autumn 2017.
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It was meeting everyone here that further encouraged my collecting. I honestly don’t know how I ever did it by myself and “in the dark” before TPF. Everyone here constantly inspires me and teaches me something new.
I started only with 90s but this year grew to add 70s to my collection and even the larger formats... all because of all the fabulous people posting here...
Today I got very special scarf mail: the red Turandot I loved on @xincinsin from a wonderful reseller on IG and last week I finally got the much coveted CW of Flamingo Party that I first saw beautifully modeled here by @Cookiefiend and that Ive craved for so long. Some things truly are constants, like my love for particular designs like FP which I’ve lusted after since 2015.
Today’s Turandot
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My new Flamingo Party
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You always make the most fabulous color choices fifi! That much remains constant!

 

[MAGJES]

I must mention my mother as an important part of my scarf collecting journey. She always loved scarves of all designs, especially H scarves. But, when I was young, I avoided scarves like the plague because I associated them with older ladies like my mom.
Oh, the memories of trips to Paris where she asked me to choose something from the Hermès store and I would select a bottle of perfume! If I could only go back in time I would slap myself into shape
My first scarf purchase took place on a trip to Spain in 2006 where I passed by the Hermès store and they happened to have Spanish-themed ones. So, I purchased Aline Honoré’s Le Jardin d’Andalousie: not to wear, but as a souvenir of the trip and as a piece to frame. I also bought my Sis a blue Hola Flamenca because she adores flamenco dancing and cobalt blue. But she asked me to either return it or keep it because she was not into scarves. I kept it also as art to frame.
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Then, a few years later I started borrowing Mom’s scarves as my style evolved and finally it was on a trip to Paris in 2015 that I first purchased an Hermès scarf to actually wear: Ex Libris a Carreaux. The colors and clever disguised ex libris motif killed me.
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As soon as I got home after that trip I read an article about the special edition Promenade a Versailles scarf. We had just visited Versailles and I didn’t think twice and ordered it. All these scarves were very vibrant and strong colors featuring red are still favorites.
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I had no local H store nearby so I discovered the H website and ordered my first Flamingo Party on the website.
View attachment 4597051

Then I discovered that one could find scarves on ebay and other reseller sites and found some older treasures like British Heraldry, Brazil, Feux d’Artifice, Orgauphone and what became my obsession: Kermit Oliver designs, especially Kachinas. A constant in my life is that I gave my DD a Kachinas Giant triangle in the summer and just got a Pani carre wash for Thanksgiving.
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After discovering resellers I thought I would seldom buy directly from Hermes until I saw Parures de Samourais on the H website. It was PdS that brought me to my newly opened local H store for the first time in Spring 2017. I knew I wanted CW5, but was blown away by the other CWs. So, researching the design online led me to TPF where I lurked for months until I finally dared to post on SOTD In Autumn 2017.
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It was meeting everyone here that further encouraged my collecting. I honestly don’t know how I ever did it by myself and “in the dark” before TPF. Everyone here constantly inspires me and teaches me something new.
I started only with 90s but this year grew to add 70s to my collection and even the larger formats... all because of all the fabulous people posting here...
Today I got very special scarf mail: the red Turandot I loved on @xincinsin from a wonderful reseller on IG and last week I finally got the much coveted CW of Flamingo Party that I first saw beautifully modeled here by @Cookiefiend and that Ive craved for so long. Some things truly are constants, like my love for particular designs like FP which I’ve lusted after since 2015.
Today’s Turandot
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My new Flamingo Party
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Loved reading about your H journey!

 

[Julide]

I have to dig back further in my archive pics for this next one (and it's long... sorry!)

When I first bought pocket squares and my initial 90cm scarves, I didn't give much more thought to it other than did I like the design and did I like the color (and as @Cookiefiend says....the "sales goggles" were usually on looking for bargains). But as time went one and I noticed which scarves I reached for versus ones I didn't. The thing the ones that tend(ed) to stay in the drawer have in common are large empty borders. For the way I tie scarves (quickly and my go to is often a Bova knot these days) it makes no sense at all for me to be showcasing a 2" wide empty edge. So most of my scarves with empty borders have moved on, and even if I like a newer design or even contemplating an older design (like a FauSdeV I got in briefly), the FIRST thing I remind myself is that blank borders are a no go for me. So even a sought after design like the FauSdeV doesn't make the cut these days. Now, I am more likely to go for edge to edge patterns like GPduF or Cosmographia, or Under the Waves which have a lot of areas I can focus on, being asymmetric and having multiple focal points on the scarf.

Only a few older scarves with borders have made the culls and that is Phaeton (since it is 60 years old) and I almost always wear it bias folded, Cosmos (colors are too nice to let it go right now), Les Tambours (the drums are so well done!) and Paridaiza. I have NO IDEA why it keeps making the cut because it goes against several "rules" that I tend to operate by now.... but it does!

Here are Phaeton, Paridaiza and Les Tambours:
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Now my preference (for 90s and 45x) is edge to edge when possible:

GP du F
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Animapolis
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Toutocizo pocket square from the men's dept
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On the other hand...it appears I have no issues with large or empty borders in large formats....

Kachinas (I think I'm on like week 7 or 8 now with it for theme matching... )
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Parures de Sables
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Karnak
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The paradiza are wonderful! I can see how you can’t let it go. There are colour combos in scarves that are just ridiculously flattering and this is one of them for you, Bunnycat.

 

[Iflola]

Don’t know the week’s theme, don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish with this SOTD drape, don’t know where my head’s at even though I’m told it’s attached to my neck...but love La Cite Cavaliere and my daughter has dubbed this CW “the politician’s Paris” the b&w one is “the writer’s Paris” etc.

 

[Cookiefiend]

I must mention my mother as an important part of my scarf collecting journey. She always loved scarves of all designs, especially H scarves. But, when I was young, I avoided scarves like the plague because I associated them with older ladies like my mom.
Oh, the memories of trips to Paris where she asked me to choose something from the Hermès store and I would select a bottle of perfume! If I could only go back in time I would slap myself into shape
My first scarf purchase took place on a trip to Spain in 2006 where I passed by the Hermès store and they happened to have Spanish-themed ones. So, I purchased Aline Honoré’s Le Jardin d’Andalousie: not to wear, but as a souvenir of the trip and as a piece to frame. I also bought my Sis a blue Hola Flamenca because she adores flamenco dancing and cobalt blue. But she asked me to either return it or keep it because she was not into scarves. I kept it also as art to frame.
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Then, a few years later I started borrowing Mom’s scarves as my style evolved and finally it was on a trip to Paris in 2015 that I first purchased an Hermès scarf to actually wear: Ex Libris a Carreaux. The colors and clever disguised ex libris motif killed me.
View attachment 4597053

As soon as I got home after that trip I read an article about the special edition Promenade a Versailles scarf. We had just visited Versailles and I didn’t think twice and ordered it. All these scarves were very vibrant and strong colors featuring red are still favorites.
View attachment 4597052

I had no local H store nearby so I discovered the H website and ordered my first Flamingo Party on the website.
View attachment 4597051

Then I discovered that one could find scarves on ebay and other reseller sites and found some older treasures like British Heraldry, Brazil, Feux d’Artifice, Orgauphone and what became my obsession: Kermit Oliver designs, especially Kachinas. A constant in my life is that I gave my DD a Kachinas Giant triangle in the summer and just got a Pani carre wash for Thanksgiving.
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After discovering resellers I thought I would seldom buy directly from Hermes until I saw Parures de Samourais on the H website. It was PdS that brought me to my newly opened local H store for the first time in Spring 2017. I knew I wanted CW5, but was blown away by the other CWs. So, researching the design online led me to TPF where I lurked for months until I finally dared to post on SOTD In Autumn 2017.
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It was meeting everyone here that further encouraged my collecting. I honestly don’t know how I ever did it by myself and “in the dark” before TPF. Everyone here constantly inspires me and teaches me something new.
I started only with 90s but this year grew to add 70s to my collection and even the larger formats... all because of all the fabulous people posting here...
Today I got very special scarf mail: the red Turandot I loved on @xincinsin from a wonderful reseller on IG and last week I finally got the much coveted CW of Flamingo Party that I first saw beautifully modeled here by @Cookiefiend and that Ive craved for so long. Some things truly are constants, like my love for particular designs like FP which I’ve lusted after since 2015.
Today’s Turandot
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My new Flamingo Party
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All are beautiful and I love reading that your mother influenced you!
Congratulations on both your red Turandot (love) and the fabulous FP - you will love it and I am so flattered!

The Chasse en Inde looks like a warmer and softer in tone compared with the Jardins Armenie, maybe that's why it works better for you?

I agree - it's a warmer and softer pink and that's much better on me. (thank goodness because I love pink!)

I have to dig back further in my archive pics for this next one (and it's long... sorry!)

When I first bought pocket squares and my initial 90cm scarves, I didn't give much more thought to it other than did I like the design and did I like the color (and as @Cookiefiend says....the "sales goggles" were usually on looking for bargains). But as time went one and I noticed which scarves I reached for versus ones I didn't. The thing the ones that tend(ed) to stay in the drawer have in common are large empty borders. For the way I tie scarves (quickly and my go to is often a Bova knot these days) it makes no sense at all for me to be showcasing a 2" wide empty edge. So most of my scarves with empty borders have moved on, and even if I like a newer design or even contemplating an older design (like a FauSdeV I got in briefly), the FIRST thing I remind myself is that blank borders are a no go for me. So even a sought after design like the FauSdeV doesn't make the cut these days. Now, I am more likely to go for edge to edge patterns like GPduF or Cosmographia, or Under the Waves which have a lot of areas I can focus on, being asymmetric and having multiple focal points on the scarf.

Only a few older scarves with borders have made the culls and that is Phaeton (since it is 60 years old) and I almost always wear it bias folded, Cosmos (colors are too nice to let it go right now), Les Tambours (the drums are so well done!) and Paridaiza. I have NO IDEA why it keeps making the cut because it goes against several "rules" that I tend to operate by now.... but it does!

Here are Phaeton, Paridaiza and Les Tambours:
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Now my preference (for 90s and 45x) is edge to edge when possible:

GP du F
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Animapolis
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Toutocizo pocket square from the men's dept
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On the other hand...it appears I have no issues with large or empty borders in large formats....

Kachinas (I think I'm on like week 7 or 8 now with it for theme matching... )
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Parures de Sables
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Karnak
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I hear you on the large empty borders, I've re-homed many of mine too.
Every time I see your PdS changeant… heres what I look like:

I struggled with the pink MetM, too. I do think it looks lovely on you.

Thank you!

 

[Cookiefiend]

When I first started my slide, I stayed in the 90cm format - big square, lots of options. I added some of the wee gavs because 1) they’re adorable and 2) perfect in the muggy summer.
Clovis the Crocodile was my first, tied here with my favorite DUJa, and my newest BdGS

I did not think I’d ever be able to manage 140cm of silk - I’d get swallowed up in it! What do you do with all that silk? Well - I sure figured that out quick...
My latest 3 moussies - Peuple du Vent Bandana, Brides de Gala en Finesse (the perfect format for this scarf IMHO), and Vinci, an in yer face hot pink changeant.



I have so far manage to not get a CSGM. Fingers crossed...

 

[bunnycat]

The paradiza are wonderful! I can see how you can’t let it go. There are colour combos in scarves that are just ridiculously flattering and this is one of them for you, Bunnycat.

Thank you kindly Julide! It does seem to be a really flattering combinations. I think several CW's of this release were very flattering.

All are beautiful and I love reading that your mother influenced you!
Congratulations on both your red Turandot (love) and the fabulous FP - you will love it and I am so flattered!

I agree - it's a warmer and softer pink and that's much better on me. (thank goodness because I love pink!)

I hear you on the large empty borders, I've re-homed many of mine too.
Every time I see your PdS changeant… heres what I look like:


Thank you!

Thank you Cookie! (And likewise with your fab moussie collex!)

When I first started my slide, I stayed in the 90cm format - big square, lots of options. I added some of the wee gavs because 1) they’re adorable and 2) perfect in the muggy summer.
Clovis the Crocodile was my first, tied here with my favorite DUJa, and my newest BdGS
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I did not think I’d ever be able to manage 140cm of silk - I’d get swallowed up in it! What do you do with all that silk? Well - I sure figured that out quick...
My latest 3 moussies - Peuple du Vent Bandana, Brides de Gala en Finesse (the perfect format for this scarf IMHO), and Vinci, an in yer face hot pink changeant.
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I have so far manage to not get a CSGM. Fingers crossed...

Really spectacular knockouts!!! The Vinci really vibrates!

 

[lanit]

Wearing Hippopolis today. Does anyone know if more designs by Ugo Gattoni are in the works? I suppose Jan Bajtliks designs are somewhat similar but I’d love another UG design!

 

[Cookiefiend]

Thank you kindly Julide! It does seem to be a really flattering combinations. I think several CW's of this release were very flattering.



Thank you Cookie! (And likewise with your fab moussie collex!)



Really spectacular knockouts!!! The Vinci really vibrates!

Hahaha! Thank you!
I really thought it wasn't changeant, it's difficult to photograph it. After I washed it though, while ironing it (and you know what ironing a wet 140 moussie is like) I started laughing because it was BAM - HERE I AM!

 

[Cookiefiend]

Wearing Hippopolis today. Does anyone know if more designs by Ugo Gattoni are in the works? I suppose Jan Bajtliks designs are somewhat similar but I’d love another UG design!
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Oh this is lovely with your sweater!
I haven't heard any news about UG, but I hope so!