Ralph Lauren Collection Spring 2013 Jade Green Silk Fringed Scarf

A romantic homage to mantón de Manila shawls, fused with Ralph Lauren’s Western haute couture styling. Perfectly blending traditional Spanish luxury with the designer’s beloved Americana. Inspired by Spanish and Latin shawls worn draped over the shoulders, or across flamenco dancers. It’s rich jade green silk crepe de chine, features intricate hand-knotted fringe work, lavish artisan precise embroidery of stylized garden blooms, all hand-finished in India. It matched nothing she owned. That was the point. It wasn’t meant to blend. It was meant to provoke. She wore it casually on a spring morning in Madrid—tied loosely at her neck, over a linen wrap dress the color of old clay walls. It was sweltering. She was cool. The breeze lifted the fringe like whispered applause. She didn’t notice. The flowers were subtle—at first. Shadow-toned, soft, stitched in a painter’s palette of saturated tropical greens; teal, and celery. They bloomed on her—more vivid, more defiant. It evokes curiosity, wanderlust, and a timeless femininity. The hand-tied macramé fringe moved like water down her back as she danced in Ibiza. It framed her face when she draped it like a veil crossing a border checkpoint in the Andes. It kept her warm on the back of a Vespa in Palermo. She wrapped it. Draped it. Let it fall. Will you? New with tags. Soft color striation, simply beautiful, see pics. Dramatic, square-cut drape, 32” square, plus 8” knotted fringe.