Hermes pop-up scarf boutique at Harrods

If this year wasn’t all about extravagant scarf prints, next year certainly will be. If you’re going to buy a posh silk scarf, you might as well make it an Hermes one and to entice you even more, Hermes has set up a special pop-up scarf boutique at Harrods (in the Room of luxury 2 on the ground floor) where every Wednesday and Friday afternoon between now and 2nd January 2012, you can learn how to tie a scarf like a pro.

I went down last week and in between catching up with Shini from Park & Cube and Khaled from Styloko, I was given a tutorial by Hermes’ ‘scarf stylist’ Stuart. I love my Hermes scarves but I really want to do more than admire them in their boxes. Stuart showed me how to fashion a quite spectacular ‘necklace’ by folding opposite corners of a silk square together to make a sort of tube and then tying a knot in the centre. You then tie knots either side of the first one and a couple more next to those but keep the knots close together. Finally, you tie the ends together round your neck. Genius! You can see the results in the photo Shini took below…

Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to film Stuart making the necklace but I got him to demonstrate the super-simple technique below for my Youtube channel…

UPDATE: Harrods has added some photos from the press preview to its Facebook page