Pierre-Alexis Dumas leads the designs of the scarves at the house today, but the first scarf was created by his grandfather, Robert Dumas, and three generations of the family have worked on the scarves. “From the beginning, the Hermès carré was imagined as an object, and not as an accessory,” Pierre-Alexis Dumas explains. “It is an object perfectly composed and autonomous, which can suffice on its own. My grandfather was fascinated by the rigour imposed by printing on silk, and he immediately addressed the creation of his motifs through composition. He, therefore, accorded great importance to the design, refusing to accept approximation in the representations of animals, objects and details, and he ended up with an expressive printed style, even when he was not the originator of the design.”