Which scarf/pointu/pochette are you wearing today?

[frou frou]

Sparklelisab Congratulations , I've left a post on the other thread so won't repeat here except

 

[TangoTosca]

I had completely forgotten about the dinosaurs! lol
I did however saw a performance of a modern dance company that was just thrilling! the pictures are still in my head! (here a small picture)

Oh, from that one picture you included, I can just imagine! How stark and industrial everything looks! How incredible it would be to hear that riveting music in that setting!!!!!

Fantasia is among my favorite movies, animated or otherwise. Did you know that it was only the third animated film Walt Disney ever released? Yes, it's true. Snow White in 1937, Pinocchio in early 1940, followed by Fantasia in late 1940. What incredible creativity they showed, setting classical music to animation, and what music they chose!! Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? When Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes ballet company (Another Annie connection!) premiered the piece in Paris in 1913 there were riots! The rhythms and the choreography completely shocked the patrons!

And what Disney do with the music of The Rite of Spring? That animation segment deals with the - at the time - very subversive topic of evolution. Remember, the infamous Scopes Monkey trial in Tennessee was only 15 years before the release of the movie. For those of you unfamiliar with American history, this was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating a Tennessee law which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. Well, actually, evolution is still a hot topic in public schools in 2012, but anyway...

I adore Fantastia, foremost because it was my first introduction to classical music as a little girl living in rural east Texas, but now with adult eyes, I appreciate it because I feel it pushed the envelope of what animation could do and how it could be used.

I must confess, however, that the Night on Bald Mountain segment terrified me as a child; I refused to watch it, and even to this day it gives me the creeps :devil:

 

[Ladybaga]

Euridice, thank you my sweet. I found the shawl. I found my first one (once Mors goes back home to San Francisco)

Scarfies, I haven't even taken my shawl back and I found Ms. Perfect. Most of you have it already as I have been lurking through archives for months-- I just bought this shawl brand new!!!

I am dying!!! We are cousins on this one. (Mine is the same colorway as lanit's.) Congratulations! I was just sharing your plight with my DH and told him how much you wanted a La Femme. To be honest, I didn't think any existed since it was such a popular design. Right after I said that, I saw your post!!! Is that wild or what??? I am thrilled beyond belief for you!!!

 

[Heatherlite]

Oh, from that one picture you included, I can just imagine! How stark and industrial everything looks! How incredible it would be to hear that riveting music in that setting!!!!!

Fantasia is among my favorite movies, animated or otherwise. Did you know that it was only the third animated film Walt Disney ever released? Yes, it's true. Snow White in 1937, Pinocchio in early 1940, followed by Fantasia in late 1940. What incredible creativity they showed, setting classical music to animation, and what music they chose!! Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? When Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes ballet company (Another Annie connection!) premiered the piece in Paris in 1913 there were riots! The rhythms and the choreography completely shocked the patrons!

And what Disney do with the music of The Rite of Spring? That animation segment deals with the - at the time - very subversive topic of evolution. Remember, the infamous Scopes Monkey trial in Tennessee was only 15 years before the release of the movie. For those of you unfamiliar with American history, this was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating a Tennessee law which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. Well, actually, evolution is still a hot topic in public schools in 2012, but anyway...

I adore Fantastia, foremost because it was my first introduction to classical music as a little girl living in rural east Texas, but now with adult eyes, I appreciate it because I feel it pushed the envelope of what animation could do and how it could be used.

I must confess, however, that the Night on Bald Mountain segment terrified me as a child; I refused to watch it, and even to this day it gives me the creeps :devil:

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TT, you bring up such a fond childhood memory with Fantasia. It too was one of my entrees to the beauty of classical music...So happy you put the image here...will put me into sweet reveries tonight...thank you

 

[Pegase]

...Fantasia is among my favorite movies, animated or otherwise. Did you know that it was only the third animated film Walt Disney ever released? Yes, it's true. Snow White in 1937, Pinocchio in early 1940, followed by Fantasia in late 1940. What incredible creativity they showed, setting classical music to animation, and what music they chose!! ...

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Your post is SO interesting! and you are SO right!... I have always been fascinating with how Disney visualized music into forms and colors that are so matching! As if the musik was composed FOR the pictures.... -Has this childhood impression helped trigger the love for shapes, colors and composition so purely manifested in a Scarf???-

 

[Pegase]

The Scarf Universe moves in mysterious ways, it's wonders to behold. Sometimes when you've given up all hope of obtaining something, it falls into your lap, occasionally with still with the tags attached!
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Dear Tango, one question on the side, if i may...
I am still waiting for a Scarf I personally tracked down in a HS in another city after my local HS was only capable of finding the same design but the wrong color...!
85% of the time I leave the store without having seen what I went there for, and without hope they will "find" it... Reading your post about unexpectedly finding silky treasures... I wanted to ask you... how/where do u look if other than the HShop?

 

[RoseUSA]

In the meantime, I was panicking thinking that perhaps my La Charmante gavroche did not have the little guy, but there he is in the lower center section, after searching a good five minutes. There will be an encore performance of this pochette for our next theme week, Double your Pleasure.

Awww, what a lovey gavroche, and hello to baby monkey!

 

[RoseUSA]

Euridice, thank you my sweet. I found the shawl. I found my first one (once Mors goes back home to San Francisco)

Scarfies, I haven't even taken my shawl back and I found Ms. Perfect. Most of you have it already as I have been lurking through archives for months-- I just bought this shawl brand new!!!

Congratulatios to your gorgeous new find! Can't wait to see this beauty on you!!!!

 

[RoseUSA]

Thanks, etoile de mer!!

my cell phone shrank my pics today when I was mailing them to myself---appropriate since I don't want to post big huge pics of a non Annie Faivre scarf! It's a great day when you can wear a 90 cashmere the whole day comfortably. Scarves have made me obsessed with weather, gah!

Lovely shades of spring bue and green! Perfect for this time of the year!

 

[RoseUSA]

Second cousin to each of you, Fritillary and Tango on Aux Pays des Epices. This black is defintely the Tex-Mex version...LOL!

John in DFW, T-E-X-A-S

I love black border scarf on you so much!

 

[RoseUSA]

I just composed a list of individual comments and made the mistake of turning a page and BOOM! All was lost!

I am too tired to retype everything now and will have to give you all a big cyber hug and kiss instead to say how beautiful/handsome you all look in your lovelies! Good night!

 

[TangoTosca]

So here's the Question of the Day, Scarfie ones....

Judging from the enthusiastic participation this week, it's clear that Annie Faivre is a favorite among us all.

Why?

What is it about her work - what is it about your favorite Annie scarves - that makes them so special? What sets her scarves apart from other Hermes designers? What makes an Annie scarf an Annie scarf?

Discuss amongst yourselves... I have my opinion, but I can't wait to hear what everyone else has to say

 

[TangoTosca]

I just composed a list of individual comments and made the mistake of turning a page and BOOM! All was lost!

I am too tired to retype everything now and will have to give you all a big cyber hug and kiss instead to say how beautiful/handsome you all look in your lovelies! Good night!

Oh, Rose, join the club. We all share your pain, 'cause it's all happened to us too. These days I type mine in my email first and them copy and paste them into tPF. That seems to save a lot on tears.

But it's all in the past now.... What are you going to wear today? Nothing like putting on an awesome scarf to cheer you up!

 

[Holsby]

I haven’t been posting here for a long time, but now I got more time and I couldn’t resist the theme of this week! TangoTosca, I suppose it is due to the task to find the monkey!
Thank you everyone for beautiful and interesting pictures!

I got very busy searching for the monkeys in my Annie Faivre scarves that I have not done earlier! I am posting some oldies but goodies and I also took some new pictures. Hope you don’t mind the recycling of my older pictures!
Even if the monkey at some of the scarves already has been posted, I am posting ”my” monkeys as well! I am also posting pictures of Annie Faivre’s signature in my scarves to contribute to the Annie Faivre documentation.

First goes Astres et Soleis.
Pictures two and three - are these monkeys?
Fourth picture shows the signature.

 

[arabesques]

This is such a fantastic thread to go through on a quiet morning! Thank you, Scarfies, for showing off all the Annie Faivre beauties this week--and then all the red ones the week before. With over 30 pages in the thread already, there's no hope for commenting individually, but I'm getting lots of inspiration for new scarves to hunt for--and new ways to wear them! Thank you!

Yesterday I was able to take a few pictures of the scarves. They were inspired by Lanit's thought about how the Marwari scarf would go with Ms. Baby Bolide--so here you go, Lanit! My first scarf was one of Annie Faivre--Jardin d'Hiver in rouge vif. And then so was my second! Kimonos et Inros in navy. And so on and so on. I don't have all the Annie Faivres I used to have in my collection, but I was happily surprised to discover that I still have--and heavily use--a few. I think my favorite scarf is Les Ballet Russes OR La Danse du Marwari as I always feel great in them. Maybe it's how the design elements in each echo some of my favorite design elements in my textiles from India.

Pic 1: Marwari (with Box and Toile Bolide)
Pic 2: Jardin d'Hiver
Pic 3: Amours mousseline pochette (with VN Bolide)
Pic 4: two colorways of Kimonos et Inros (with VN Bolide)
Pic 5: Les Ballet Russes (with Black Box Kelly)