Our Grand Apparat is starring in Mena, Tom Cruise’s next thriller

Our Grand Apparat is starring in Mena, Tom Cruise's next thriller Our Grand Apparat was purchased in May to serve as a prop in Tom Cruise's upcoming thriller, MENA, out January 2017. Doug Liman directed this movie about the life of Barry Seal.  Seal, a former TWA pilot, became a drug smuggler in the 1980s and …

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Every Season Hermes reinvents its Classics

I am always interested in seeing how the Maison Hermes reinvents some of the Classics and this season there are several old timers that have received a new and perhaps more up to date look: Les Cles, Eperon d'Or, Brides de Gala and Ex Libris, are all iconic Hermes carres and have been for decades. Here are …

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Écuries – The Inspiration for this coveted Hermès© carré

Écuries, Stables, has, as the name suggests, a very equestrian themes, so popular with many vintage Hermès carrés.  As the name promises, we see horses, all twenty of them, in their respective stables. Hugo Grygkar, The Father of the Carre, as I like to call him, designed this fabulous scarf in 1947, which was reissued in 1993 and …

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