You are very welcome to my Scarf of the Moment post for my most recent purchase: Hermès’ gorgeous Le Carrousel du Tigre Royal. Unfortunately, I am struggling with illness and disability and so this post may not be up to my usual standard. I really try to make these posts interesting, informative and useful for the extremely large community of Hermès scarf addicts and anyone who may just find themselves on my blog.

So, let’s get started…

As I begin to write this in the last days of January 2025, my life is getting a bit out of control. Also, I am trying to reach a decision about how many more scarves I should purchase, given that I hardly ever leave the house! So, I will try my best to write something acceptable to my own standards at the very least. If I do “borrow” some elements from my previous posts about the design, well I make no apologies.

During the Autumn of 2024, the designs for the Hermès Spring/Summer 2025 began to appear on The Scarf Forum. I almost immediately fell for one design. I loved the colours and the pattern as well as the cute depictions of animals. Of course the scarf was Le Carrousel du Tigre Royal, designed by Katie Scott. The scarf is a 90cm silk twill, the purchasing code is H004206S 07 and the colours are Marine/ Lavande/ Bleu Glacier. Here are the images from the Hermès website…

Hermès fans might compare some of the design elements of this scarf with Sous le Charme d’Orphée, designed by Alice Shirley, which I own as a 90cm silk twill double-sided scarf and as a 149cm cashmere/silk shawl. In fact I have seen other Hermès scarves with this concentric circle motif. However, I felt that there are enough differences between the designs for me. My new scarf has a background with geometric elements, for example.

One of the things that I really like about this design is that the animal elements are the “right” way up when the scarf is tied in many of the popular ways. I will show you what I mean later on in this post.

Description

This gorgeous design is of a carousel or merry-go-round with a range of animals and birds in two concentric circles. The design is orientated as if the viewer is underneath the carousel and can see upwards to the image of the Tigre Royal in the centre at the very top of the tent ceiling. This central element draws the eye inwards and creates a sense of perspective (this scarf would definitely be great to hang as a picture on the wall!). Some of the creatures are shown on poles just ready to be ridden. Others appear to be chasing each other round the circle between the animal seats, looking back to see who might be behind and ready to pounce! Many of these animals and birds wear saddles, even a pigeon and a frog! The inner ring of animals walk steadily around and look as if they are on the uppermost part of the tent.

The viewer can see that there is a plinth with geometric designs beneath the circling animals (i.e. around the edge of the scarf. In each of the four corners of the scarf, a different animal leaps forward as if trying to escape the excitement! The background to the design consists of geometric shapes and lines.

My scarf’s colourway (H004206S 07 Marine/ Lavande/ Bleu Glacier) attracted me almost immediately. Navy blue is one of the most important colours in my wardrobe, a “base” colour if you like. The other colours include an ice blue, a shade of lavender purple, teal and brown. In fact this combination of blueish green and greenish blue is stunning! Finally, there is a contrast hem in white.

Colourways

These are the colourways for the Spring/Summer 2025 silk twill 90cm scarves. I have added in the codes to help those of you who may wish to purchase a scarf.

Design story

This has been taken from the Hermès website:

Details

Here are some closeups of my scarf in a slideshow format:

How I wear the scarf

This is such a lovely scarf and I adore it already, but I have been so preoccupied and unwell that I have only managed to wear it a couple of times since I purchased it. It looks great with my outfits in navy blue and I think cobalt, lilac, turquoise and teal work well too. I don’t wear anything in pale blue or brown, but I am certain that the scarf would enhance these colours.

Here are some quick photos that I have been able to take since I bought the scarf just before Christmas. As soon as I am well enough, I will add more “modelling” photos here and also attempt to make some collages.

The photos above show the scarf with a range of cashmere sweaters in navy, turquoise and cobalt blue. I also plan to wear the scarf  with items such as these…

Scarf ties

I have tried on this scarf in a variety of ways. At the moment, as it is so new, the silk fabric is still crisp so doesn’t fall easily into soft folds. Anyway, you can get the general idea of how it looks when worn. Here are a few attempts: 

Background information 

This is not the kind of scarf with lots of useful background details, but I have found the following. If I come across any more information, I will add it here…

First, something about the designer, Katie Scott – there isn’t much online that I can find, to be honest:

Katie Scott – Commissions
Http://Katie-scott.com
Her personal site with a little information about the artist and designer, and a shop for her lovely prints. I am very tempted! There are owls (Younger Son would like them)!

Katie Scott turns science into fantasy without her modern take on anatomical illustration
https://www.friendsoffriends.com/art/katie-scott
A fascinating article about Scott’s work.

Big Active: Katie Scott
https://bigactive.com/artists/katie-scott/
Images which link through to some of her work.

I hope readers have found this exploration of  Le Carrousel du Tigre Royal both interesting and useful. Once again, if you find any errors or have any additional information that I could add, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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