“On my first day of work at Roger Vivier,” says creative director Gherardo Felloni, “I leafed through a book about Monsieur Vivier and I fell in love with a fuchsia silk thread fabric shoe: it had a virgule heel, which I discovered for the first time in my life and it became an obsession ever since immediately. Today, I keep that shoe in my office in Paris.”
For those unaware of the heel’s significance, shoe couturier Roger Vivier invented the comma-shaped heel after its namesake, the “Virgule”, in 1963. Created as an elegant alternative to the high stiletto heel that was fashionable at the time, the exaggerated, avant-garde expression was a signal of change for the designer, who was looking to relaunch his own business after parting ways with Christian Dior,…
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Tatler Malaysia (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023