With simple cuts and elegant styling in fashion this season, a scarf is an even more indispensable accessory.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shop, which specialises in items based on originals in the New York museum, offers a beautiful 107-centimetre-wide Poiret shawl in pure gossamer silk chiffon with rolled hems. It is priced at $1,790 'The design is derived from a brocaded silk evening coat in the museum's Costume Institute created by Paul Poiret, a famous Parisian designer of the early 20th century who was known as 'the maker of dreams',' general manager Daisy Tan said.
A boldly coloured pattern depicts fruit and foliage, while stripes of shimmering satin and glittering threads of gold lame evoke the elegance of a bygone age.
At Cartier, a resplendent Princely Correspondence scarf, with its scattering of letters, recalls the love that united the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
The Duchess had a passion for Cartier jewellery and this is reflected in the jewels superimposed on the letters: her famous lorgnette, a heart engraved with the words 'More than yesterday and less than tomorrow' and clip earrings in the shape of a butterfly on a flower. The scraf is in silk twill and is available in five colour combinations.
Another new scarf, 13 Rue de la Paix, recreates the famous marble and gold facade of the Cartier building in Paris and surrounds it with a frieze of gold charms associated with the jeweller.
