HERMES 90cm CASHMERE SCARF - PANI LA SHAR PAWNEE
by KERMIT OLIVER
It took me a long time to appreciate Kermit Oliver scarves. Many of his designs are so painterly and use so many colors (La Vie au Sauvage, I'm looking at you!) I couldn't figure out how to tie them well. And many of his scarves feature faces, which somehow made me feel uncomfortable (like, what if I tie it in a way that it just looks like a face staring out at the world?).
And yet I got past all that when I saw this in the boutique (originally issued in 1984, the cashmere release was in 2010). It was the colors that got me. (I bought my Hapi non-jingle bell leather necklace at the same time - they go together perfectly.)
From the Hermes Story Behind:
This portrait is a tribute to the Pawnee, a tribe from the Nebraska and Kansas plains that was forced into exile in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma at the end of the 19th century. Sumptuously dressed, Pani La Shar Pawnee holds a sculpted peace pipe featuring a galloping horse. His calm gaze and proud bearing express the great dignity of his people. Peace pipes and bison heads decorate the corners of this composition, around which run horses and their riders inspired by Karl Bodmer's notebooks. The work of this 19th-century illustrator remains a precious record of Native American culture. Pani La Shar Pawnee, designed in 1984, was the first scarf imagined by Kermit Oliver.
And yet I got past all that when I saw this in the boutique (originally issued in 1984, the cashmere release was in 2010). It was the colors that got me. (I bought my Hapi non-jingle bell leather necklace at the same time - they go together perfectly.)
From the Hermes Story Behind:
This portrait is a tribute to the Pawnee, a tribe from the Nebraska and Kansas plains that was forced into exile in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma at the end of the 19th century. Sumptuously dressed, Pani La Shar Pawnee holds a sculpted peace pipe featuring a galloping horse. His calm gaze and proud bearing express the great dignity of his people. Peace pipes and bison heads decorate the corners of this composition, around which run horses and their riders inspired by Karl Bodmer's notebooks. The work of this 19th-century illustrator remains a precious record of Native American culture. Pani La Shar Pawnee, designed in 1984, was the first scarf imagined by Kermit Oliver.
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