Hermès Les Amériques Silk Square Scarf 90cm Oliver Kermit 1992

Hermès: Silk twill Carré/Scarf titled "Les Amériques", designed by Oliver Kermit in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the New World.

Oliver Kermit, a former Texan postal worker passionate about history, theology, and symbolism, established himself through his erudite and deeply narrative style, becoming the first American artist to collaborate with the house.

With Les Amériques, Oliver does not succumb to folkloric imagery but pays tribute to the great pre-Columbian civilizations – Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, Taínos. To the east of the composition, Christopher Columbus stands in all his majesty under the world map of Henricus Martellus (1489), accompanied by his caravels and the coat of arms attributed to him by Isabella the Catholic.

To the west, a richly adorned indigenous king welcomes the conqueror under the gaze of the protective jaguar and ancient deities. At his feet lie the riches of the New World: codices, calendars, fruits, gold, and obsidian. The scarf also evokes, in the background, the myth of the god Quetzalcoatl, whose return was announced... from the west.

An erudite, deeply spiritual scarf that finely weaves the thread between history, beliefs, and civilizations.

Les Amériques is an exceptional Hermès scarf. Published only once and never re-edited, this rare model depicts the encounter of two worlds: the Old and the New. The composition, dense and symbolic, tells in its own way a part of the history of the American continent.