Unworn ‘Jaguar Quetzal’ with Original Sales Tag

Here’s a truly wonderful, relatively current Hermes scarf, that we’ve been wanting to get hold of for a very long time! We are thrilled to be able to bring it to you, as it’s very difficult to source at a realistic price. Isn’t it beautiful?

Designed by Alice Shirley for Hermès’ Spring/Summer 2018 collection.

The scarf shows a cute jaguar curled up asleep, wearing a beautifully decorative feathered and bejewelled headdress, in a nest of exotic foliage. Butterflies flutter past and the feathers curve around the edge. The bottom two corners are particularly pretty and look great when the scarf is tied. The whole design goes right up to the edges of the scarf with no border and there is a lovely contrast hem.

This scarf is as new, complete with original folds and sales tag. We would have described it as mint, but unfortunately it has been folded incorrectly resulting in a couple of extra creases. We have refrained from pressing it, as we want to retain the original sheen, stiffness and folds. Condition: 9.9999/10.

Hermes Writes:

The “jaguar warriors” of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilisation inspired Alice Shirley to dream up this big cat and its superb headdress, which is loosely inspired by the famous Penacho conserved in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna. Made of feathers and semi-precious stones, this enormous headdress owes its beauty to the brilliance of more than 400 quetzal feathers. The quetzal is a tropical bird that lives in Central and South America, whose Aztec name means “long green feathers”. The designer, who is passionate about the animal world, gives us a tender portrait: a sleeping jaguar “dreaming of freedom”.

Alice Shirley graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2007 with a BA in Fine Art. From 2007-2009 she worked on writing and illustrating her own edition of Aesop’s Fables, published in 2009 by Pavilion Children’s Books, Anova Books. In 2009 she started The Drawing Year at The Prince’s Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School). She continued for a second year at the School and left in 2011. For three years Alice taught with the Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Clubs at the Natural History Museum and V&A Museum of Childhood. She wrote and illustrated her second book for children, The Gentle Lion and the Little Owlet (published by Anova Books in 2012). She works closely with the specimen collection of the Natural History Museum in London and has completed commissions in the United Kingdom, Jersey, India, Germany, Italy and France. Alice is currently creating designs for the fashion house Hermès Paris, her first design went on sale in late 2014. She has been working in collaboration with the conservation charity, Synchronicity Earth, to produce artworks and bespoke hand-painted masks for the Biophilia Masked Ball held in November 2014 at the Natural History Museum in London. Alice’s works from her studio in Camden, London in disciplines including drawing, painting in oils, acrylic, watercolour and ink, sculpture, print-making and photography.