Scarves Scarf of The Day 2023- Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
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I’m so sorry that you’ve been ill, Xincinsin, and I hope you are on the mend. Love your three Mineraux and your cw of Pierres et Cristaux is stunning. I’m glad you brought out your ELs, which are all wonderful (EL Globetrotter!). This is a design that never stops giving and, as you nicely demonstrated, continues to definitely feeds the imagination. In addition to my Ex Libris en Cravate maxi-twilly cut, which I showed earlier, here are others in my collex. Sisters with EL Atlantis.Apologies for my absentee hosting this week. After getting through the pandemic in relatively good health, I caught the flu bug this week
Scarfies who have been on SOTD for a while will notice that I have an obsession with rocks and gems. So it was only natural that I would find that vintage design Mineraux.
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It was therefore a foregone conclusion that when H released a design on the same theme, I would jump on it. My three cws of Mineraux are quite naturalistic, so my SA was surprised when I chose the dark pink cw for Pierres et Cristaux. It reminded me of rock slabs which gemologists put under tests to check if they are natural, enhanced or synthetic.
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Several scarfies have shown the multiple iterations of BdG old and new. I like H's remakes of Ex Libris, some of which are so different that they look nothing like the original. A few are on my wishlist.
An Ex Libris with grail status is EL en Kimonos.
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I have two.
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And inspired by @Julide's full array of this design, I recently acquired a third which is still in the mail.
Gattoni created a cute version EL Atlantis with the groom at the bottom of the ocean.
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When I travel, I sometimes bring along EL Globetrotter which is in lightweight silk, a nifty smaller size and and shows the 4 points of the compass.
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And one of my fave EL-based designs is Glitch. It depicts EL on a very staticky old TV screen. If you do not take a closer look, you would miss the pattern altogether. A techno interpretation of a very traditional design!
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Ex Libris Bandana, my first.
EL Madras
EL Atlantis
And EL MT Cut again:
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Your Globetrotter is cute, xcs!Apologies for my absentee hosting this week. After getting through the pandemic in relatively good health, I caught the flu bug this week
Scarfies who have been on SOTD for a while will notice that I have an obsession with rocks and gems. So it was only natural that I would find that vintage design Mineraux.
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It was therefore a foregone conclusion that when H released a design on the same theme, I would jump on it. My three cws of Mineraux are quite naturalistic, so my SA was surprised when I chose the dark pink cw for Pierres et Cristaux. It reminded me of rock slabs which gemologists put under tests to check if they are natural, enhanced or synthetic.
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Several scarfies have shown the multiple iterations of BdG old and new. I like H's remakes of Ex Libris, some of which are so different that they look nothing like the original. A few are on my wishlist.
An Ex Libris with grail status is EL en Kimonos.
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I have two.
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And inspired by @Julide's full array of this design, I recently acquired a third which is still in the mail.
Gattoni created a cute version EL Atlantis with the groom at the bottom of the ocean.
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When I travel, I sometimes bring along EL Globetrotter which is in lightweight silk, a nifty smaller size and and shows the 4 points of the compass.
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And one of my fave EL-based designs is Glitch. It depicts EL on a very staticky old TV screen. If you do not take a closer look, you would miss the pattern altogether. A techno interpretation of a very traditional design!
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Feel better @xincinsin ! Thanks @Redbirdhermes for the Galop Volant post and DR’s current scarf info. Thanks @Nomad @Nhare @MAGJES and all the silky likes.
many moons ago during my early days of H scarf collecting (er, hoarding), I fell in love with Rocailles by VALERIE DAWLAT-DUMOULIN. I love seashells and I thought the classic design in the blue colorways could always be framed if I ever was lucky enough to have a beach house. Years later the incredible Reve de Corail and Chemins de Corail, both by Annie Faivre came along and I pounced on those too.H was very keen about specific subjects and objects in earlier times. I’ve noticed a departure from that approach with the more recent designs being more whimsical in style.
i kind of miss Annie Faivre’s designs and hope to see her work again for H.
many moons ago during my early days of H scarf collecting (er, hoarding), I fell in love with Rocailles by VALERIE DAWLAT-DUMOULIN. I love seashells and I thought the classic design in the blue colorways could always be framed if I ever was lucky enough to have a beach house. Years later the incredible Reve de Corail and Chemins de Corail, both by Annie Faivre came along and I pounced on those too.H was very keen about specific subjects and objects in earlier times. I’ve noticed a departure from that approach with the more recent designs being more whimsical in style.
i kind of miss Annie Faivre’s designs and hope to see her work again for H.
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The CSGMs are really stunning, Croisette, but that colorful, little gav steals my small format-loving heart.
All truly stunning, Lanit, and particularly taken with the rich blue-red Reve.
Such a fun post, Xincinsin! Love Cheval de Courses, wonderful colors.The H equestrian roots as well as the many inspirational treasures in the H museum collex mean that there is no end to the scarf designs featuring horses, carriages, bridles and saddles. My first BdG was a tiny doll version.
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I used to grumble that there was little that I could do to wear the teeny 9-inch squares. Then H issued nano scarves and I felt better (H therapy...)
But back to horses. I think it's lovely how H designers play around with horses. Modern designs cast horses as superheroes! (Minuit au Faubourg, 2015)
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A seemingly stylized horse head becomes blueprints for stables upon a closer look (Cheval de Courses, 2008).
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In this vintage scarf La Poursuite 1959, the subject is the hunt - a relic of an older aristocratic society which many of us may not be familiar with outside of novels and movies. But the artistic style is refreshingly modern. I like especially that the dogs and horses burst out of the frame, merrily charging into and breaking the confines of the border.
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La Poursuit is very modern! I would have never guessed its real age.
Thank you, Nhare, and I hope it comes your way. Boutiques may have it, even if the website doesn’t. Your SA or customer service can tell you if it’s in a boutique. I’ve had great luck purchasing scarves from boutiques over the phone.
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On this same subject, the detailed illustrations of artists/naturalists such as Dallet, Honore and more recently Alice Shirley ; I’m glad I have these treasures in my tansu. Compared to those of Marsal and Guzman line illustrations, they do add a richer and impressive printing heritage that is missing more recently. Having said that, I do love Marsal’s Pivoines, La Cite and Fauborg Tropical for their architectural rendering style.
And more recently Alice Shirley, whose illustrations I admire.
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