Description

Oriental Motifs / “Silk Road” Collection – Scarf 90×90 cm

by Stella Polare Artiste, Paris. 

Created in Paris, this scarf reflects the artist’s sense of longing for her homeland and forms the foundation of the the Silk Road collection. Through a dialogue between contemporary art, symbolic forms, and textile heritage, it moves beyond objecthood to become a space of expression.

You see a scarf. I create my roots.

The composition draws from traditional Uzbek cotton motifs — their rhythm, their repetition, their silent structure.

Reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, these patterns shift from ornament to language, from decoration to presence.

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Concept

The composition unfolds as a structured field of contrasts — deep black grounds interrupted by fragments of white and vibrant orange, forming a dynamic grid that feels both architectural and fluid.

Across this surface, ornamental motifs expand and dissolve. Curved vegetal forms echo traditional Uzbek patterns, yet they are enlarged, fragmented, and reassembled, creating a rhythm between fullness and void, repetition and rupture.

These forms can also be read as clouds — drifting, gathering, dispersing. They evoke the movement of thought itself: unstable, layered, and in constant transformation. In this sense, the composition becomes not only visual, but mental — a poetic landscape where inspiration takes shape.

Moving through this field, a procession of stylised animals appears — hybrid figures between lion and tiger. Their presence is not illustrative, but symbolic. Inspired by the mythic creatures found in the decorative programs of Samarkand’s mosques, they carry a sense of protection, power, and continuity.

These figures traverse the composition like a silent narrative, linking past and present. Around them, cross-like floral structures emerge, recalling both textile ornaments and architectural medallions, reinforcing the dialogue between fabric and monument.

The result is a layered visual space where: pattern becomes structure, ornament becomes language, thought becomes cloud and memory becomes movement.

This is not a static motif, but a living composition — where fragments of Samarkand’s visual heritage are reinterpreted through a contemporary, shifting field.

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Artistic Vision

Stella Polare, also known as Khulkar Yunusova is a French-Uzbek contemporary artist based in Paris.

Her work unfolds through the concept of vitaculture — the urgency of joy understood not as decoration, but as a deliberate act.

Her practice navigates between: image and language, East and West, intimate narrative and collective memory.

Her work has been presented at institutions such as UNESCO, the Louvre, and Palais Jacques Cœur (carte blanche, 2021), among others. The same year 2021 she was invited to the Parole des Femmes, public talk at the House of the Great French writer, Maison de George Sand

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Why a scarf

For Stella Polare,

the scarf is not an accessory. It is a medium.

A space where heritage, identity, and transformation intersect. It allows the continuity of textile traditions, the translation of motifs into contemporary forms, the activation of hidden narratives, the dialogue between surface and meaning.

What once belonged to collective production becomes here an individual gesture — displaced, reinterpreted, and made present.

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Product details

• Material: 100% polyester twill
• Size: 90 × 90 cm (standard silk scarf size)
• Finish: Hand-rolled edges
• Production: designed in Paris, printed and finished in Como, Italy
• Quality: Soft, luminous, and fluid texture
• Each scarf is produced in very small quantities to preserve its value.

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Limited production

This model is produced in a strictly limited edition.

If unavailable, it may be made to order:

• Production time: up to 8 weeks
• Personalization available upon request

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To wear Stella Polare scarf means

Worn, it becomes movement.
Folded, it becomes structure.
Displayed, it becomes presence.