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The gauchos gallop from one corner of this scarf to the other, across the plains of Argentina and southern Brazil. With their colorful tunics and silver stirrups, reins in one hand and lasso in the other, these horseback herders sometimes even carried messages from one country to another. Presented for the first time in 1988, this elegant design by Jean de Fougerolle is inspired by objects in the Saumur horse museum and the Emile Hermès collection.

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Hermes has taken its equestrian tradition into another hemisphere, where a square of silk twill becomes the open plain for those dashing Argentinean cowboys. The gauchos were inspired by the drawings of Marenco, a painter who chronicled life on the pampa.