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Saturday, June 10, 2017

Collection SS2017: Into the Canadian Wild

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A beautiful depiction of the natural habitat of Canada - in all its majesty.  Limited edition in Canada, available for sale June 15, 2017...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Collection SS2017: The Battery New York

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To celebrate its' 10 year-anniversary of the Battery Park boutique, the esteemed house issued a limited edition scarf - another one, ...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Collection SS2017: Appaloosa des Steppes

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This daring composition combines some of the traditional motifs of Kyrgyzstan, the mountainous country of Central Asia, with the spott...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Collection SS2016: Bain de Mer

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Jean-Louis Clerc met Robert Dumas in 1950, when the artist was in his forties, with a string of prestige collaborations to his name.  Cle...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Collection SS2016: The Savana Dance

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  Chased by a leopard, a vervet monkey turns to face its predator, his expression anxious and uncertain. In Zulu culture, the leopard sym...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Collection SS2016: Les Ailes pleines de joie

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  Les Ailes pleines de joie (‘Wings of joy’) is a hymn to Nature.  Fluttering between earth and sky, a cloud of butterflies haloes a tr...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Collection SS2016: Bonnes Vibrations

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Pierre Marie’s intriguing, complex composition is inspired, he says, by "the invisible forces of Nature". In the 18th century...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Collection SS2016: Cuivreries

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Françoise de la Perrière created this carré in the early 1960s.  Arranged in a starry, circular composition, a group of ornamental horse ...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Collection SS2016: Parcours sans Faute

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The beloved Florence Manlik, whom we introduced in 2011 with the beautiful Brides de Gala en Finesse  and again last year with A la plume...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Collection SS2016: Apparat des Plaines

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Antoine Tzapoff – that great connoisseur of Native American culture – offers a detailed portrait of a member of the Absaroka or Crow Nati...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Collection SS2016: Mythiques Phoenix Coloriages

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The legendary phoenix, mount of the gods, is a gigantic, fabulous bird, thought to live for hundreds of years before consuming itself in ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Collection SS2016: Modernisme tropical

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The first carré from Sao Paulo-born artist Filipe Jardim captures ‘his’ Brazil – a Brazil of the imagination and reality, too, with its d...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Collection SS2016: Under The Waves

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  Alice Shirley pays tribute to the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s biggest coral reef, off the coast of Queensland in northern Australia...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Collection SS2016 : Maitres de la Foret

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With the lightest of touches, Annie Faivre’s carré expresses the full force of nature: the vital energy and burgeoning growth of the plan...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Collection SS2016: Belles du Mexique

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One of my favourite designs hands down is the Belles du Mexique .. and this season, we're regaled to some wonderful - and unforgett...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Collection SS2016: Cheval Surprise Coloriage

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You must certainly remember the original Cheval Surprise of 2004, by the talented Dimitri Rybaltchenko.  The design had such a strong ef...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Collection SS2016: Cheval Surprise Remix

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You must certainly remember the original  Cheval Surprise  of 2004, by the talented Dimitri Rybaltchenko.  The design had such a strong ...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Collection SS2016: Au Pays des Oiseaux Fleurs

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From our beloved Christine Henry we have a new design that's set to mesmerize the admirer by inviting her to follow the many chapters...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Collection SS2016: Interferences d'Antonio Asis

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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1932, Antonio Asis is the Hermes guest artist for the spring/summer season 2016.  He trained at the N...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Collection SS2016: L'Instruction du Roy

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"The King’s Instruction in the Exercise of Horse Riding" was the title given to a 17th-century work by Antoine de Pluvinel, eq...
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