HERMESOLOGY

Designer: Francoise de la Perriere

Year: 1964, 1970s, 1980s, 1990, 1997, 1999, Fall 2002, Sp 2009
2010 as cash/silk GM, 2014 as 70cm

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Translated: “At the Heart of Life”

Artist: Aline Honore

Year: Spring 2007 (8 cws), Spring 2014 (12 cws?)
Also available in mousselline 90cm in Spring 2009

Ref no: 2235

Screens: 37

Description from hermes.com:

Suspended between heaven and earth, nestling in the tallest trees of the Equatorial forest, the flora and fauna in this scarf weave in and out like the pieces of a gigantic puzzle. Together, they form a veritable canopy, a burgeoning of vegetation, swarming with extraordinary, little-known plant and animal life. The Au Coeur de la Vie scarf teems with a thousand unfamiliar details of the forest: unusual species of creeping vines, orchids, carnivorous plants, parrots, hummingbirds, small lemurs, insects, chameleons, butterflies … it reflects the infinite diversity, the incredible richness of equatorial life, the energy and imagination of nature. Difficult to reach and still largely unexplored, this milieu is the repository of a thousand vegetal treasures, green gold-mines and hidden secrets, a myriad of unknown living substances, plant cells bursting with the promise of life. It is up to us to protect this biological reservoir in order to understand its mysteries and to learn its lessons of beauty and health.

From hermes.com in 2014:

From 2007 scarfbook:

Reference: The Silk Road

Special Edition: Association Ricci (2010) in Hong Kong

Updated 04.12.22

Designer: previously no attribution, now Bali Barret

Year: Fall 2008
Also came in 140 C/S GM (Sp 2009), C/S etole (Fall 2009) and pointu (Sp 2009) and dipdye (Sp 2014).

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Year: 1963, 1970s, 1980, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2010 (as Dip Dye 90cm)

From 1985 “How to Tie” (link deleted)

From 1988 “How to Wear”

“. . . is a fascinating interpretation of a 400-year-old celestial charting tool used by ancient astrologers to determine the relative positions of the sun and moon. Modern-day zodiac signs were added by Hermes artists.”

Also in 1998 “Having Fun with your Hermes Scarf” (not shown)

From Knotting Cards Vol 3:

Reference: Jackie O. wearing her Astrologie scarf . Credit to HermesGroupie.

Oprah wearing the classic black/white/gold colorway on the cover of O Magazine

Christine Lagarde wearing two different colorways

Note: The official name — Astrologie — is not on the scarf. It does bear the words “Dies et Hore” (days and hours) which many incorrectly assume is the title.

One of the company’s Ten Best Selling Scarves of all time (Vanity Fair, September 2007).

Original 1963 issue will have no copyright.

Ad Campaign from 1980: (link deleted)

Vogue Nippon, Dec 2010

Colors: Ref No 1387

• 03 & 51 Black/white/gold (original CW that has been reissued every single time)
• Purple/Chartruese (1963) see top pic
• 08 Cobalt/white/gold
• Beige
• 16 Wine/white/gold
• 25 Ivory/orange/ivory
• Soft black (1988)
• Rouge
• White (1999)
• Light Blue (1999)
• 37 Orange & blue (2003)
• 38 Turquoise & gold
• 43 Ice blue
• 45 (Sp 2008)
• 47 Green/white (Sp 2008)
• 48 Etoupe/orange (2008)
• 49 image deleted
• 52 Ivory/gold (often reissued CW)

Updated 04.12.22

Artist: Christine Henry

Year: Fall 2013
Also avail in cash/silk 140cm

Ref no: 2786

From 2013 booklet: The French capital of silk since the 16th century, three centuries after Lyon inaugurated a museum dedicated to textiles. Its collections stretch from the West to the East and down the centuries: Coptic tapestries, rugs from Asia Minor, Byzantine fabrics, Sicilian and Lyonnais creations… In this collection as lustrous as it is remarkable, Christine Henry selected the delicate textile patterns that here embellish the wings on this cloud of butterflies.

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Artist: Hugo Grygkar

Year: 1954

Suggestion: Check out Premieres Mains (2002) by Zoe Pauwels for another Hermes carre dealing with cave painting.

From 1954 catalog:

Text from the carre owner:

“While exploring one long ago September day nearly 70 years ago in 1940,
four French teenagers discovered a cave in southwestern France,
that was to become one of the most renowned archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century.

The boys found a complex of caves, with 17,000 year-old! paintings on stone walls,
which are believed to be one of mans earliest known written works.

In the late 1940′s after the end of WWII, the caves were opened to the public,
but due to deterioration caused by excess carbon dioxide from thousands of visitors,
they were closed again in April of 1963.

I believe this vintage scarf depicts what is known as the Great Hall of Bulls.”