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Hermès is renowned for its carrés, also known as scarves. Now the luxury label has turned its coveted collection of scarves into a book. Hermès calls it the “scarf as a novel”. In true poetic form, the brand also calls this new vision “the scarf as a world of shapes” and “the scarf as a philosophy of colour.”

The book features around 150 scarves and “describes the life and history of the square of silk which has become legend.” Called Le Carré Hermès, the 320 page book is written by art and architecture writer Nadine Coleno and is published by Editions du Regard and is priced at €84. It is available in a limited collector’s edition (prestige version covered with a silk scarf) and a hardback version. The Scarf on both covers is Quadrige.

Hermès describes the project as: “Each Hermès scarf tells a story: this volume is their anthology. Created as an artist’s book, it transposes the scarves instead of merely picturing them. It magnifies their charm while preserving their ethereal grace. It narrates, through images and text, the existence of the now mythical silk twill “carré”.

Makes for a lovely Christmas present.