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

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AnnaE said:
Oh fun! What camera? :smile: is it good for scarf photography? :smile:
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Our Leica q2 has finally arrived last week after months wait. The photos are amazing. It's probably easier to use when you photograph products. For example, this is my scarf of the day, and I accidentally snapped a picture which turns out great (no editing but shrinking its size for the forum).
I'm still a newbie to taking selfie. Get to work on it more.L1000138.jpg
 
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Going a tad abstract here with the theme North America and New World.

Rightly or wrongly, I associate the US with space exploration - the new frontier! So here are two scarves with astronauts. I'd love to know if there are more.

Feux de l'Espace with the H Feux d'Artificier clad in a space suit, and Fantasies Indiennes with the Indian cosmonaut.
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AnnaE said:
Hi, scarf friends! This is completely off-topic, but I have been researching Le Geographe and thought I would share. Let me know if I am missing anything or if there are any inaccuracies.

I believe this is a 1992 edition; Sandra Laroche is an Australian artist behind this design. She is a member of the Australian Society of Marine Artists, which explains her choice of the subject. She has designed several other Hermes scarves as well (Au Clair de La Lune, Mon Ami Pierrot, Fleurs d'Hiver, and Per Astra ad Astra).

My favorite feature of this scarf is a kangaroo + anchor jacquard design -- it really is quite impressive and I wish Hermes still had jacquard fabrics made to go with individual scarves.

The scarf is named Le Geographe after one of the ships on the Baudin's expeditions which focused on exploring Australia, its coastline, flora and fauna. 3 men from those expeditions are also featured on the scarf -- see below.

The center part features a kangaroo, a platypus, and emu, and a wedge-tailed eagle (I think), all of which are endemic to Australia. They surround a map adapted from Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande -- arguably the first modern map of Australia. It was published in 1811 and it was a direct result of the Baudin exhibitions. The eagle is holding a banner with the words Orbis Australis dulces exuviae, which means Australia's Sweet Spoils -- the bird image with the banner are adapted directly from the map as well. (You can see the original design and more historical information here.)

The scarf's corners feature four famous men connected to Australia:
  • Nicholas Thomas Baudin -- Le Geographe's captain, naturalist and explorer; the eponymous Baudin expeditions contributed greatly to Australia's cartography as well as understanding of its zoology.
  • François Péron -- chief zoologist during the Baudin expeditions.
  • Charles Alexandre Lesueur -- naturalist and artist during the Baudin expeditions; helped collect and document (through sketching) Australian fauna at the time.
  • Matthew Flinders -- the only Englishman amongst the group of Frenchmen, which is interesting since England and France were at war for most of the duration of the Baudin exhibitions. They did have a famous encounter at what is now Encounter Bay, wherein they exchanged their maps and realized Australia was actually a continent and that they had covered the entire coastline between the two of them. Flinders' bragging rights include naming Australia, as opposed to calling it New Holland. Interestingly, he had a famously adventurous cat called Trim (personally, I think not to feature him was quite an oversight).
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I would like to add my little story connected to Laroche and Le Géographe.
The other day at the vernissage for an art exhibition at our local art salon I met the sister of Sandra Laroche! She is an watercolourist. Her name is Barbara Månsson and she has been living in Sweden all her adult life. For a week once a year she and her sister Sandra meet in Paris from each side of the world, Australia and Sweden.
I got star struck :nuts: when she told me about her sister and we talked about Sandra's works for Hermès, where Le Géograph is the scarf they both value the most. Barbara told that she wears hers only at special occasions.
I asked if I could post these pictures in the Scarf thread where Sandra and Le Géograph are presented. She liked the idea!
The lady in red is Barbara. I was volunteering at the exhibition. Barbara's tango dancers on the wall.
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One of Barbara's aquarelles.
I imagine the sisters Sandra Laroche (blue) and Barbara Månsson (green) with a friend (red) in a Paris café.
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Hola everybody! I am on holiday in Spain and have hardly had a free moment so am pages and pages behind. Have taken screenshot of where I need to go back to to catch up but in the meantime I am just popping in quickly to post a pic of my Tribord tied round my hat in Mijas, Andalusia, today. It's the first time I have worn a scarf in a week as it's just too hot.
Hope you are all well!
 

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kleider said:
Our Leica q2 has finally arrived last week after months wait. The photos are amazing. It's probably easier to use when you photograph products. For example, this is my scarf of the day, and I accidentally snapped a picture which turns out great (no editing but shrinking its size for the forum).
I'm still a newbie to taking selfie. Get to work on it more.View attachment 4481948
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It does a really nice up close! (Love that JL too!)

xincinsin said:
Going a tad abstract here with the theme North America and New World.

Rightly or wrongly, I associate the US with space exploration - the new frontier! So here are two scarves with astronauts. I'd love to know if there are more.

Feux de l'Espace with the H Feux d'Artificier clad in a space suit, and Fantasies Indiennes with the Indian cosmonaut.
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Saw Kang ought to, right? Weekend dans l'Espace? I like your thinking!

litchi said:
Finally caught up this week. And liking :tup: all the gorgeous scarf photos! My sotd has an American bison...View attachment 4482233
I'm curious if anyone else has found it. :eek: There he is, looking at Kluska! :coolio:
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Awww- why fun! Bison on Animapolis!

Holsby said:
I would like to add my little story connected to Laroche and Le Géographe.
The other day at the vernissage for an art exhibition at our local art salon I met the sister of Sandra Laroche! She is an watercolourist. Her name is Barbara Månsson and she has been living in Sweden all her adult life. For a week once a year she and her sister Sandra meet in Paris from each side of the world, Australia and Sweden.
I got star struck :nuts: when she told me about her sister and we talked about Sandra's works for Hermès, where Le Géograph is the scarf they both value the most. Barbara told that she wears hers only at special occasions.
I asked if I could post these pictures in the Scarf thread where Sandra and Le Géograph are presented. She liked the idea!
The lady in red is Barbara. I was volunteering at the exhibition. Barbara's tango dancers on the wall.
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One of Barbara's aquarelles.
I imagine the sisters Sandra Laroche (blue) and Barbara Månsson (green) with a friend (red) in a Paris café.
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Oooh- thank you for posting Holsby! What a fun exhibition!

Pautinka said:
Hola everybody! I am on holiday in Spain and have hardly had a free moment so am pages and pages behind. Have taken screenshot of where I need to go back to to catch up but in the meantime I am just popping in quickly to post a pic of my Tribord tied round my hat in Mijas, Andalusia, today. It's the first time I have worn a scarf in a week as it's just too hot.
Hope you are all well!
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Glad you are out enjoying yourself Pautinka! I really am going to have to try scarf on a hat this summer!
 
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