Collaborative Excellence: The “J’Aime Mon Carré”, Silk Scarves Collection via Hermès + Colette. Outstandingly Exclusive. Available Soon…

Via Style.com’s Rebecca Voight:  “Hermès: getting down with the kids. The august label—which usually prefers to keep its own counsel—is launching an exclusive collaboration with Colette this fall. What’s more, it’s jazzing up one of the most classic offerings in its repertoire: le carré, or silk scarf. Bali Barret, Hermès’ artistic director of silk—yes, they have one of those—designed a series of exclusive new designs for the scarves, in bold contrast colors and mash-up pattern prints. All the better to proclaim (as the collection’s title has it), “J’Aime Mon Carré.” They’ll be available from September 27 to October 16 at the Paris boutique, but if you can’t wait, www.jaimemoncarre.com launches later this summer, to document carré events and trace scarf lore at a series of events staged from the Czech Republic to Australia. And speaking of getting down with the kids—the house even commissioned photographer Matt Irwin to travel to four cities (New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo) to capture the scarf in situ for a carré ‘zine.”

“J’Aime Mon Carré": The Herems and Colette silk scarf collaboration. Image via Style.com.

Executive Excellence: Jean-Louis Robert Frédéric Dumas of Hermès, RIP

Mourning the death of 72-year-old Jean-Louis Dumas, Outstanding amateur photojournalist and Excellent creative director of Hermès for 30 years. Jean-Louis Dumas: Photographer, a beautifully bound 2 volume collection of Monsieur Dumas’ sophisticated, mostly black and white images, capturing intimate moments from his life and travels, elegantly shot with an old Leica, was published by the art book house Steidl in 2008.

A spread of photographs taken by Jean Louis Dumas from the book Jean-Louis Dumas: Photographer, published by Steidl. Image via Steidlville.

LUXURIOUS EXCELLENCE: THE HERMES MAN BOUTIQUE

Entering Hermès Man, the new, first-ever, 4-story, private club-like, men’s-only Hermès boutique, recently unveiled directly across the street from the French luxury brand’s flagship women’s shop on New York Madison Avenue.

The Excellent new Hermès men's-only shop on Madison Avenue in New York. Image by Dimitrios Kambouris for Getty Images for Hermes.

EXCELLENT CHOICES: THE SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THE 2010 FESTIVAL D’HYERES

Presenting the selection committee for the 25th edition of the Festival D’Hyères, the International Fashion and Photography Festival (to be held April 30 to May 3, 2010, at the Villa Noailles in Hyères, France) at a pre selection meeting at the Dries van Noten showroom, Paris, Friday, January 20, 2010. This year’s president: Dries van Noten. Jury: Olivier Lalanne (editor in chief of Vogue Hommes International), Sarah Mower (fashion writer for Style.com and American Vogue), Sally Singer (fashion news and features director of American Vogue), the Italian journalist Laura Incardona, British designers Charlotte Stockdale and Nancy Rohde, Malcolm McLaren, New York-based Chilean designer Maria Cornejo, Pascale Mussard of Hermès, and Michele Bocchese of the Italian textile firm Maglificio Miles.

The selection committee for the 25th edition of the Festival D'Hyères meeting in Paris. January 29, 2010. Image via Vogue.fr.

PARIS REPORT: BEHIND-THE-SCENES

Backstage at the Paris Fall/Winter 2010 menswear collections. Full slideshow at wwd.com.

Backstage at the Paris Fall/Winter 2010 menswear shows. Image via wwd.com.

IMPECCABLE EXCELLENCE: VERONIQUE NICHANIAN for HERMES

Presenting Véronique Nichanian‘s laid back, sophisticated Fall/Winter 2010 menswear collection for Hermès. Full collection slideshow at wwd.com.  Hermès’ first mens only flagship shop willl open on New York’s Madison Avenue in February.

Hermès' Fall/Winter 2010 look 18.

Hermès' Fall/Winter 2010 look 38.

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