"Draw me a scarf": a pretty title for a competition. In
2013, Hermès organized a workshop in association with ENSAD (France’s École
Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. Students were immersed in
the life of the house of Hermès and introduced to this year’s theme: la
flânerie, that deliciously French art of strolling, aimless yet eager and
aware, open to whatever comes your way.
A concept evoked to perfection in
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiographical Confessions: ‘J’aime à m’occuper de
faire des riens…
"I love to busy myself with nothing at all,
to begin a hundred things at once and finish none, to come and go as the mood takes me, to change my plans at each and every moment,
to track the haste and bustle of a passing fly, to heave a rock from the soil, merely to see what lies beneath…’
Three winning designs were selected in January 2014, including this playful, spirited, highly original scarf by Flavia Zorilla Drago: a spiralling dance of words and imaginative figures.
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