Kitten heels for a flowering young woman: it’s the accessory of choice for a radiant femininity, ingenuous yet mischievous. These tiny stilettos, with their 5 cm height, are making a comeback with a solidly affirmed character and an iconic reissuing. The curved profile for the mythic elegance of Audrey Hepburn, the square heel for Yves...
A magical universe, where all existence breathes in the golden item in question at the very edge of desire. A marked aesthetic that is magnified more than once: Cachet, a shoe by Sergio Rossi, is transformed into a pale, gray, or golden second skin. It’s as if the extremity of the female limb were a kind of...
This is the second season that Frida Giannini, creative director for the Gucci label, fervent admirer of horseback riding, has excavated some signature pieces from archives to offer the young princess of Monaco a clothing line for her horse races. And this year, Forever Now is paying homage to the horsebit, the mythic Gucci emblem...
Just as Alexandre Dumas made us travel to Holland in search of the Black Tulip, today we find ourselves in New York, at Rockefeller Plaza, where one of the five copies of Tulips is featured. This work of art by Jeff Koons is on auction tonight at Christie’s alongside works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. A monumental piece about...
To Gabrielle Chanel, “a woman with good shoes is never ugly”. In 1957, she adorned the silhouette of the Chanel two-tone shoes. She made a call to the artisan shoemaker Massaro in order to create this accessory. He offered to compose it for her, so that it had some beige color “that blends into and...
Two rings and a rod: one shoe and one story. Gucci is inaugurating a very special collection in the new year, its “1953 Collection”, that celebrates the 60th birthday of its famed Horsebit Loafers. These flexible, comfortable, esquestrianly aestheticized, and decidedly refined moccasins are an allegory of the brand itself: recognized as “emblematic” in 1986...
A number of career changes would soon ensue: dancer, illustrator for Vogue or Vanity Fair… “I was lucky enough to design quickly and well and I could have “cracked” whatever, a clothing item, a shoe, a bag…” Finally he settled as an assistant at Dior, where he first discovered the beauty of the shoe. He would...
Man was light years away from thinking that he could one day set foot on the moon. And yet, he did it that fateful July 20, 1969. The cataclysmic 70s allowed Italian entrepreneur Giancarlo Zanatta to get inspired and create a pair of boots with a decidedly cosmic allure. Thinking of a name wasn’t rocket...
Manolo Blahnik, “the magician of high heels” is pulling out all the stops by rereleasing his “Ossie” shoe. Initially conceived in 1971 for British designer Ossie Clark, these high-heeled sandals always take the cake at Blahnik’s runway shows. With the shoe’s rustic vibes, nature has never been so sexy. Green suede straps supported by small red...
