HERMES 90cm LIMITED EDITION SILK SCARF - WOOF WOOF
by PIERRE MARIE and DIMITRI RYBALTCHENKO
Back in 2017, Hermes began creating limited edition scarves for Valentine's Day: re-issued scarves with some new detail to make it appropriate for the holiday, and packaged in a heart-shaped box. That first scarf, Brides de Gala Love, took the iconic design and overlaid it with hearts. Other Valentine's Day LEs include Jungle Love Love (2019) and the heart-shaped gav and twilly ring (2020). And just because I like knowing things (that's what I do - I wear scarves and know things) if you know the 2018 LE please drop me a note.
Anyhow, the 2021 Valentine's Day Limited Edition Hermes scarf was Woof Woof. I don't usually care so much about these LEs (I find hearts a bit too sweet) but this had DOGS! There were several options, and if you ordered online then Hermes would surprise you with a dispatch of their choosing. The foundation was a choice of Pierre Marie's 2020 design La Source de Pegase or Dimitri Rybaltchenko's 2009 Please Check In - both in pink colorways. Both have remnants of other scarves embroidered on, in the shapes of two lovestruck dachshunds with a heart floating between them. The Please Check In version has a 'stamp' of La Source de Pegase. The Pegase version remnants were either Dimitri Rybaltchenko's 2014 Les Faceties de Pegase or Aline Honore's 2018 L'Art du Sarasa or the iconic Brides de Gala.
Not wanting to risk getting Please Check In (cool design but meh), I went to the boutique where they had the Pegase version with Faceties. (TBH I was hoping for the Brides de Gala stamp but I didn't quibble - La Source de Pegase is such a busy pattern and the dogs are in the center so they pretty much get lost when the scarf is knotted.)
From the Hermes Story Behind for La Source de Pegase:
Pegasus, the winged horse and divine creature in Greek mythology who, with a strike of his hoof, summoned a spring. Going by the name of Hippocrene, the spring can be found on Mount Helicon in Greece. The nine muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, came to quench their thirst there. Pierre Marie’s eloquent narration is expressed through his line and composition. His design is an allegory for the birth of an idea and tells this amazing story. He places Pegasus with his radiant wings in the spotlight, with muses dancing the farandole in a joyous and fantastic setting, combining the terrestrial with the cosmic.
Anyhow, the 2021 Valentine's Day Limited Edition Hermes scarf was Woof Woof. I don't usually care so much about these LEs (I find hearts a bit too sweet) but this had DOGS! There were several options, and if you ordered online then Hermes would surprise you with a dispatch of their choosing. The foundation was a choice of Pierre Marie's 2020 design La Source de Pegase or Dimitri Rybaltchenko's 2009 Please Check In - both in pink colorways. Both have remnants of other scarves embroidered on, in the shapes of two lovestruck dachshunds with a heart floating between them. The Please Check In version has a 'stamp' of La Source de Pegase. The Pegase version remnants were either Dimitri Rybaltchenko's 2014 Les Faceties de Pegase or Aline Honore's 2018 L'Art du Sarasa or the iconic Brides de Gala.
Not wanting to risk getting Please Check In (cool design but meh), I went to the boutique where they had the Pegase version with Faceties. (TBH I was hoping for the Brides de Gala stamp but I didn't quibble - La Source de Pegase is such a busy pattern and the dogs are in the center so they pretty much get lost when the scarf is knotted.)
From the Hermes Story Behind for La Source de Pegase:
Pegasus, the winged horse and divine creature in Greek mythology who, with a strike of his hoof, summoned a spring. Going by the name of Hippocrene, the spring can be found on Mount Helicon in Greece. The nine muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, came to quench their thirst there. Pierre Marie’s eloquent narration is expressed through his line and composition. His design is an allegory for the birth of an idea and tells this amazing story. He places Pegasus with his radiant wings in the spotlight, with muses dancing the farandole in a joyous and fantastic setting, combining the terrestrial with the cosmic.
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