HERMES 90cm SILK SCARF - L'OMBRELLE MAGIQUE
by PIERRE MARIE
Pierre Marie quickly become one of my favorite scarf designers. In 2008 he became the youngest scarf designer for Hermes. Inspired by nature, history, and folklore, his designs feature a similar level of detail and sense of whimsy as Annie Faivre but with a different more narrative feel. I had the privilege of exploring the Emile Hermes collection at 24 Faubourg in 2015, and got to see the inspiration for this scarf: a feathered umbrella; I gasped with delight! No photos were allowed but IIRC the parasol was tucked behind the writing desk where Pierre Marie had been sitting just hours before my arrival.
The story unfolds in the scarf through the circular vignettes. From the Hermes website:
There once was a prince who wanted to marry a young woman, as free as the wind and as beautiful as a bird. The Old Hermit of the Chestnut Tree offered him a magic umbrella, decorated with a porcelain bird-woman, which took him all around the world, from north to south and east to west. When he finally kissed her lips, a young woman appeared, freed from a curse cast upon her. This cane-umbrella from the Émile Hermès collection is a fairy tale heroine. Sewn with pheasant feathers, it's topped with a porcelain figure decorated with flowers. The designer's hand was guided by the poetry of this object created at the beginning of the 21st century by the German manufacturer, Meissen.
The story unfolds in the scarf through the circular vignettes. From the Hermes website:
There once was a prince who wanted to marry a young woman, as free as the wind and as beautiful as a bird. The Old Hermit of the Chestnut Tree offered him a magic umbrella, decorated with a porcelain bird-woman, which took him all around the world, from north to south and east to west. When he finally kissed her lips, a young woman appeared, freed from a curse cast upon her. This cane-umbrella from the Émile Hermès collection is a fairy tale heroine. Sewn with pheasant feathers, it's topped with a porcelain figure decorated with flowers. The designer's hand was guided by the poetry of this object created at the beginning of the 21st century by the German manufacturer, Meissen.
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