The Belles Amures silk scarf was designed by Loïc Dubigeon for Hermès in 2002. The scarf features sailing ships, lighthouses, and the points of a compass. There are also some nautical knots. The scarf exists in several color combinations.
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Showing posts with label Hermès silk scarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hermès silk scarf. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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Kovarsky Scarf
Last week, I received an e-mail from Rachel Pero, an avid fan of New Yorker cartoonist Anatol Kovarsky. She shared a couple of photos of her delightful silk scarf designed by the artist some six decades ago. It measures approximately 30" x 30” and is a fashion accessory I never dreamed existed. The scarf is a vibrant depiction of apartment life in the big city, with bold red and yellow colors.
Note: In addition to the images of original art, correspondence, and rare published material by New Yorker artists that I always ask for, it seems now I must add a request for silk scarves. So be it!
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| Anatol Kovarsky Rear Window Scarf design for Richard Farrar
Photograph courtesy of Rachel Pero
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| Farrar by Kovarsky
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A quick internet search revealed another Kovarsky scarf design, this one posted by Atlanta illustrator Laura Coyle, which shows a family watching TV as observed through a window. Surrounding vignettes
depict all the available programs.
Naturally wishing to know more about these scarves, I contacted the artist's daughter, Gina Kovarsky. She wrote back:
Indeed, my father was commissioned in the mid-fifties by Richard Farrar to create several designs for silk scarves that were printed in several color schemes. Two of the designs are for large scarves full of amusing details. The one Rachel has (called "Rear Window," I assume thus named because of the similarity with Hitchcock's film) was also done in blue, in mustard yellow, and in red, as I think was the other large one... There was also the one you're referring to with the TV in the center, and all around it vignettes showing what was on the different channels.
A detail of my dad's "Rear Window" appears on p. 96 of Andrew Baseman's beautiful book The Scarf (text by Harold Carlton, photographs by Robin Nedboy), published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang (1989). The detail from dad's scarf gets a full page to itself. Andrew Baseman collected the amazing scarves in the book over a period of ten years from 1979 when he bought his first scarf. As he writes in the Foreword, "It was signed by Charles Addams, and it depicted characters from his New Yorker cartoons." A photo of that scarf is on the facing page.
Several other New Yorker cartoonists' scarves are also included in the book. Here's the blurb (from Amazon):
A celebration of the scarf not only as a fashion accessory but as a work of art. It chronicles the history and appeal of its subject, with examples from Hermes, Pucci and Givenchy, with printed bandanas, the limited-edition from l'Ascher, humorous souvenir scarves, Deco patterns and shawl-scarves. One chapter features one-of-a kind scarves created for "The Scarf" by such artists and designers as Kenny Scharf, Roz Chast, Maurice Sendak, Mary McFadden and the House of Balmain. The final chapter provides ideas for arranging, tying and wearing scarves.
Dad also did several smaller square ones showing Grecian dancers with a Shakespearean motif ("All the world's a stage"), and several short narrower rectangular neck scarves: one with acrobats and another with jugglers, if memory serves.
September 15, 2022 Update: A predominantly red and olive version of the Rear Window scarf is in the collection of New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
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| Photograph by Roz Chast |
Note: In addition to the images of original art, correspondence, and rare published material by New Yorker artists that I always ask for, it seems now I must add a request for silk scarves. So be it!
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Les Folies du Ciel
"Les Folies du Ciel" is a scarf design for Hermès by Loïc Dubigeon. It exists in a variety of colors; this particular example has a pink background. The fanciful design is very appealing, but when you get right down to it, one selects a scarf based primarily on color, so Hermès gives you a lot of choices.
This example in brand new condition will be sold by Heritage Auctions at the end of April.
For men, Hermès occasionally takes the silk with the scarf design and uses it to fashion neckties. Here's an example of "Les Folies du Ciel" with a red background used to create a man's tie, or cravate in French. Design elements of the balloon at the lower left corner of the scarf appear on the wide part of the tie. As you go up the tie, the silk is taken from the scarf diagonally toward the upper right-hand corner. Thus looking at the tie gives you a small sliver of the scarf, something visually intriguing but necessarily incomplete.
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This example in brand new condition will be sold by Heritage Auctions at the end of April.
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Sik Scarf, Hermès, Paris, 1984 |
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For men, Hermès occasionally takes the silk with the scarf design and uses it to fashion neckties. Here's an example of "Les Folies du Ciel" with a red background used to create a man's tie, or cravate in French. Design elements of the balloon at the lower left corner of the scarf appear on the wide part of the tie. As you go up the tie, the silk is taken from the scarf diagonally toward the upper right-hand corner. Thus looking at the tie gives you a small sliver of the scarf, something visually intriguing but necessarily incomplete.
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Back of the Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Tag for Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Silk Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris, eBay Winning Bid, December 8, 2012 |
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Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Sik Scarf Tie, Hermès, Paris, eBay Item Description, December 8, 2012
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HERMES-TIE-Red-Backgound-Folies-Du-Ciel-New-without-Box-/281031158581?pt=US_Mens_Ties&hash=item416ec32b35&nma=true&si=VJo29%252F7WbHpl1SY9gWmnl4%252FkT80%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 |
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| Loïc Dubigeon, "Les Folies du Ciel" Sik Scarf, Hermès, Paris, 1984 |
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Jungle Love
"Jungle Love" is a beautiful Hermès silk scarf designed by Robert Dallet for the 2000 collection. In general, all the company's scarves are exceptionally well-designed and can stand up to the test of time.
Similar in name only:
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| Robert Dallet, "Jungle Love," silk scarf, Hermès, Paris, 2000 |
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Robert Dallet, "Jungle Love," silk scarf, Hermès, Paris, 2000
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| Robert Dallet, "Jungle Love," silk scarf, Hermès, Paris, 2000 |
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"Jungle Love"
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