Hermès Scarves

[Mai Tai]

Tours de Clés in a criss-cross knot

 

[FrenchCactus]

You have so many beautiful scarves MaiTai! Do you mind me asking how many you have?

 

[Mai Tai]

Too many if you'd ask my husband, not enough if you ask me, lol.

 

[FrenchCactus]

Too many if you'd ask my husband, not enough if you ask me, lol.

I understand your point of view: how can you resist when Hermès creates beautiful new scarves every season? You never grow tired of them, they are so timeless and dreamy.

 

[chaneladdict]

That is the perfect answer Mai tai.... Every once in awhile my husband will declare no more Hermes for you! But that never stops him from buying me my Christmas present there....

 

[missbluejean]

Limited Edition: Hermes Scarves at Colette in Paris
by Candy Pratts Price

Sharpie this into your Paris Fashion Week calendar: the J'aime Monday Carre Hermes Project at Colette. We all know there is nothing more fun or iconic than a scarf. British photographer Matt Irwin journeyed to four corners of the planet with art director Dean Langley and stylist Francesca Burns to capture the lives of four young accessory fiends, and the resulting journal is an ode to city style and this timeless accessory. A limited number of Hermes for Colette pieces are available at the store in Paris through October 16. Those of us skipping Europe (and missing the big party at Colette this Friday) can make a virtual date on the newly launched website, jaimemoncarre.com.

(vogue)

 

[FrenchCactus]

^ I went to Colette yesterday. I'll post pictures soon

 

[missbluejean]

^Great! Looking forward to it

 

[FrenchCactus]

Colette window with the Hermès scarves sold in limited edition (my picture)

more pictures and article right here

 

[missbluejean]

^Great entry FrenchCactus, thanks for sharing! I wish I could be at Colette right now... I really want that magazine

 

[FrenchCactus]

Aw, thank you missbluejean!

 

[Street_a_Licious]

it's funny since Hermes isn't even 5 minutes away from Colette

 

[chaneladdict]

Is the first image posted a scarf with pieces of other scarves together, or just a showing of all the options? I adore the Quadrige scarf, it's on my list at the moment..I love the polka dots in the windows!!!

 

[FrenchCactus]

Is the first image posted a scarf with pieces of other scarves together, or just a showing of all the options? I adore the Quadrige scarf, it's on my list at the moment..I love the polka dots in the windows!!!

If you mean the image in missbluejean's post, it's the Patchwork scarf that is sold exclusively at Colette.

 

[FrenchCactus]

Did you know that part of the profits from sales of the Ombrelle magique scarf will be donated to the Fondation de France to benefit children in Haiti?

Ritournelle

 

[teddyjess]

Omg, does anybody know about this j'aime mon carré campaign that Hermès is doing at the moment???

I was walking in town with my mother one day and then this lady literally RAN up to me and asked me to do a quick photo shoot wearing their scarves. They got me to write down my contact details and everything and said they'd get in touch. Does anybody know what the pictures will be for? I saw they asked a few people all over town to do the same thing, so I was just wondering what the whole point of it is?

Here's the official website of their new campaign ^^
http://www.jaimemoncarre.com/

 

[missbluejean]

Hermès scarves by Daniel Buren

French artist Daniel Buren might be synonymous with large-scale public installations - such as his forest of candy-striped columns outside the Palais Royal in Paris - but he has a lesser-known love for the lens. Since the 1950s he has amassed some 400,000 of what he calls 'photos-souvenirs', documenting his work and travels around the globe, describing them as 'photos without pretension and no more than that'. A selection of these now adorn a series of 365 Hermès silk scarves - named 'Photos-souvenirs au carré'.

The bold, graphic creations incorporate 22 of Buren's photographs, which the artist has cropped in different ways, with varying striped frames, so that each scarf is unique. The project follows on from two earlier collaborations between Buren and Hermès. The artist inaugurated Hermès' contemporary art gallery La Verrière in Brussels in 2000 by transforming its walls with bold graphics, colours and his trademark stripes. 'It was a huge aesthetic shock for me, the way he brought out the space's simple, obvious beauty,' says Hermès artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas. And in 2006 he inaugurated a second gallery for the label - the Atelier Hermès in Dosan Park, Seoul - with his 'Filtres colorés', coloured panels that diffused the light to dramatic effect.

In this way, Buren helped initiate Hermès' dialogue with contemporary art. 'Its very important for us to be open, to absorb new experiences, to have a tension, a space linking contemporary art and our métiers,' says Dumas. With the 'Filtres colorés' project, Buren 'once again showed in an amazing way, the simple beauty of the space, using light and transparency. And that's something he used again for the scarf project,' he explains.

The 365 silk scarves incorporate different fragments of 22 of Buren's 'Photos-souvenirs', created using ink-jet printing, a technique which allows an infinite number of colours to be used, unlike traditional screen printing. The results are more colourfully nuanced, intense and pictorial. Presented this week at the Kamel Mennour gallery and La Monnaie de Paris, the collection is the second edition of Hermès' 'carré d'artiste', the first of which was Josef Albers' 'Homage to the Square' in 2008.

Although artworks in their own right, Buren insists that they are made to be tied about the neck, draped and even crushed: 'They are unique objects like paintings but, rather than fixed on a wall, are made to be worn.'

More here: (wallpaper)

 

[FrenchCactus]

^ I really don't like those

 

[chaneladdict]

yeah I'm not the biggest fan of those either...

 

[Goya]

Hermès scarves by Daniel Buren

More here: (wallpaper)

Interesting color mix, thanks a lot for sharing this, missbluejean .