DESIGNER'S NOTES

This wonderful Fox & Chave chiffon silk scarf features a design after the final painting by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).

Kahlo is most renowned for a variety of self portraits depicting herself in different surrealist scenes often as expressions of her physical pain, suffering and emotional world following a life changing accident when, at the age of 18, a trolley car collided with the bus she was travelling on.

By contrast, this final work painted in 1954 just days before her death, is a simple if colourful still life of watermelons, with the words 'Viva la Vida' or 'Long live life' inscribed on the flesh of a sliced piece of the fruit. 

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STYLING

There are many ways to style a Fox & Chave chiffon silk scarf including the basic drape, belted drape and reverse drape. Our chiffon silk scarfs look really good worn in the bandit knot or faux infinity style too. More scarf styling ideas are available in this wonderful How to Tie a Scarf book.