Candidate catalogue entry
Last Night
Title: Candidate · not independently reviewedDimitri Rybaltchenko
Artist credit: Candidate · not independently reviewed
The inherited pilot metadata remains provisional. The separately reviewed note below does not promote the catalogue record or establish a first-edition year.
Brief creation story
The story, in brief
This note has its own sources and limits. The inherited catalogue metadata elsewhere on this page remains provisional.
Last Night brings the mixing desk into the world of the scarf. Hermès’s 2018 annual report credits Dimitri Rybaltchenko with a cashmere-and-silk carré whose musical subject contains a private joke: the playlist is replaced by references to some of his earlier designs. That report gives the work a documented place in the house’s 2018 activity, without proving that 2018 was its first edition.[2]
A later, undated product description for a Last Night ashtray expands the scene into turntables, records, controls and cables. It names Pegase Pop and Minuit au Faubourg in its imagined choice of the next track. This is the house’s narrative for that application, not evidence that every reference appeared in the earlier scarf.[1]
The idea is an appealing way to think about an artist’s repertoire. Older work is not put away; it can be selected, combined and heard again in a different setting. Here, remembering becomes part of the performance.
First-edition year: not established by these sources.
Sources and limits of this note
- Last Night ashtray · HermèsThe story behind, lines 80–82
- Document de référence 2018 Hermès International · HermèsSection 1.4.3.2 La soie masculine, printed page 21 / PDF page index 22, extracted lines 1313–1316 · Section 1.4.3.2, printed page 21, lines 1313–1316
Evidence details and uncertainties
- artist · supported
- Dimitri RybaltchenkodesignDocument de référence 2018 Hermès International, Section 1.4.3.2 La soie masculine, printed page 21 / PDF page index 22, extracted lines 1313–1316
- documented scarf · supported
- Cashmere-and-silk carré reported in 2018; mixing desk; earlier designs replace playlistreporting_year:2018Document de référence 2018 Hermès International, Section 1.4.3.2, printed page 21, lines 1313–1316
- object story · supported
- Turntables, records, controls, cables; named Pegase Pop and Minuit au Faubourgproduct:H314894M 01Last Night ashtray, The story behind, lines 80–82
- first edition year · unknown
- Unknownexisting_entity
What is documented
- Title
- Last Night Candidate · not independently reviewed
- Artist credit
- Dimitri Rybaltchenko Candidate · not independently reviewed
- First edition
- Unknown Unknown
Reviewed product variants
No product variant is established in the reviewed sample for this entry.
Discover the artist
Dimitri Rybaltchenko Candidate · not independently reviewed association
Documentary context
In a July 2018 GQ interview, Christophe Goineau, Hermès’s creative director for men’s silk, singled out a blue Last Night by Rybaltchenko for the coming winter collection.
Speaker is a Hermès employee. Winter collection context is not an absolute first-edition finding. No carryover of material or ashtray imagery.
- Wir wollen keine Revolutionen · GQ Germany
Patrick Pendiuk; date lines 42–44; question Aktuelles Lieblingsteil? and answer lines 73–74; Last Night caption lines 78–80
This narrowly scoped reference does not establish an independent history of this design or its first edition. Historical evidence and visual credits remain separate.