HERMES 90cm SILK SCARF - LE SAUT H
by CYRILLE DIATKINE
Back in the mid-2010s, when Hermes allowed its scarves to be sold at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, it held a pop-up event at Nordstrom's flagship store in Seattle. Conveniently, I was visiting my mother and of course I had to stop in. Not sure how I lucked out on being the only person at the pop up when I went in, but I got to peruse everything at a leisurely pace.
I also picked up this scarf - the blues were calling me and the silk, to this day, is super stiff. For the longest time I thought the artist credit belonged to Dimitri Rybaltchenko, based on a similar graphic approach he created in Cheval Mirage. Wrong-o. I should have been looking at Josephine Danse as another example of pointilism employed by Cyrille Diatkine.
From the Hermes Story Behind:
Built for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, the Grand Palais hosted equestrian competitions beneath its magnificent glass dome until 1957. Hermes revived this tradition with the first Saut Hermes at the Grand Palais in 2010, and continues to invite the world’s show-jumping elite to this annual event which was given 5-star status, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports’ highest classification. Boldness, respect, striving for excellence… the values of this sport are vividly conveyed in Cyrille Diatkine’s design, based on an image by the photographer Lucio Landa. Here, Super Sox, ridden by Lillie Keenan, seems to fly over the obstacle!
I also picked up this scarf - the blues were calling me and the silk, to this day, is super stiff. For the longest time I thought the artist credit belonged to Dimitri Rybaltchenko, based on a similar graphic approach he created in Cheval Mirage. Wrong-o. I should have been looking at Josephine Danse as another example of pointilism employed by Cyrille Diatkine.
From the Hermes Story Behind:
Built for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, the Grand Palais hosted equestrian competitions beneath its magnificent glass dome until 1957. Hermes revived this tradition with the first Saut Hermes at the Grand Palais in 2010, and continues to invite the world’s show-jumping elite to this annual event which was given 5-star status, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports’ highest classification. Boldness, respect, striving for excellence… the values of this sport are vividly conveyed in Cyrille Diatkine’s design, based on an image by the photographer Lucio Landa. Here, Super Sox, ridden by Lillie Keenan, seems to fly over the obstacle!
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