HERMÈS BEAUTY – POUDRE ROCABAR LIMITED EDITION

Imagined for the 2025 festive season by Gregoris Pyrpylis, Creative Director of Hermès Beauty,
limited edition Rocabar Silk Powder combines poetic inspiration with exceptional technical expertise to create marquetry in powder.

Rocabar – an emblematic motif

The name evokes the traditional blue and red striped rug worn by racehorses and made by Hermès since the 1920s.

At the time, a Scottish artisan in the saddlery workshop referred to this as the “rug à barres” (meaning “rug with stripes”).

Over time, rug à barres became Rocabar.

Since then, the design has been used for a wide variety of different products – in wool, cashmere and silk, on the herringbone canvas of a bag or on a change tray.

Rocabar has also inspired a watch (1978), a fragrance (1999), a silk scarf (2012) and the autumn-winter 2024 women’s ready-to-wear collection.

Now it is reinvented again, as a face powder that reworks Henri d’Origny’s Rocabar scarf design, combining it with the art of marquetry.

A new signature beauty object

Rocabar Silk Powder is a new beauty talisman in the equestrian tradition of 24, Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

A delicately drawn horse seems to have escaped from the silk scarf, and now trots elegantly across the powder in the compact.

The subtly coloured stripes on its coat evoke motion, echoing the scarf and its optical illusion of six stately horses standing out against the background.

The dozens of shapes that make up the design are perfectly assembled to create an elegant, sophisticated visual effect:

an exquisitely crafted display of powder marquetry that blends poetry and functionality to create a beauty object that is unique in every way.

“A silk scarf can light up the face, its graceful radiance enhancing the beauty of the wearer just like a powder.”

“Today, the house has adapted its heritage Rocabar motif into a generous, colourful object for Hermès Beauty that elevates the complexion.”

Gregoris Pyrpylis