Hermes Graceful Competition Scarf presents an unbelievable gathering of two totally different worlds. Indians, who represent the free world, displays their exquisite art as the ruins of disappeared culture in contrast to the mechanical and industrial world which is dominated by speed and fortune. All vehicles offer us convenience and changing our life completely can be spotted on the Hermes Scarf.
Bicycles give individual freedom on daily activity; steam locomotives make large transportation of passengers more convenient and change the way of our life; we can also witness the selection and construction of railways spreading thousands of miles to lay the foundation of railway transportation throughout wide plain in America. Last but not least. Automobiles, the symbol of luxury and adventure, indicate the breakthrough of technology and industrialization, and connect the rural and urban areas which is implicated by the dogs and wild animals on the edge of the scarf.
We can see the industrial and technological innovations as well as endangered bulls due to the arrival of immigrants. Indians wear their ethnic costume and the gorgeous eagle feathers symbolized the sun on head. Kermit Oliver, designer of the scarf mixes contradictory things together to express the eternal confrontation between industry and nature in an ironic way. Industry developed with the destruction of nature. On the bottom of the scarf, a tortoise is racing against the car, which reminds us of the well-know fable whose lead role is the same slow animal.
Indians usually embroider extraordinary patterns on back bags, arrow bags and horse ornamental to keep marking personality on their items with humanity which has lost in the materialized world.
