Hermès - “Qu'importe le flacon...” Silk Scarf

Designed by Catherine Baschet in 1988, featuring vintage perfume bottles alongside Hermès bottles (Calèche, Amazon) on a white background with a pink border.

87x90 cm

The ribbon framing the scarf bears the quote: “Qu'importe le flacon, pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse?” - “What does the bottle matter, as long as we have the thrill?”- taken from Alfred de Musset’s poem “La Coupe et les Lèvres,” dedicated to his lover, the French writer and feminist pioneer Aurore Lucille Dupin, who wrote under the pseudonym George Sand