The 1960s continue to fuel the imagination of many contemporary designers.
Gherardo Felloni, Roger Vivier's creative director, also wanted to take a journey back to those years, looking at the psychedelic geometries of the Op Art movement, but above all at Monsieur Roger Vivier's passion for animal prints, in particular the zebra print that appears in his collages and his archive creations from those years.
"Reimagining the timeless creations of this era has long been an aspiration of mine", she says in Paris where, on the left bank inside the neoclassical Maison de l'Amérique Latine, she presents the collections of shoes, bags, jewelery and accessories for Autumn Winter 2024/2025.
Among the celebrities who attended the presentation were Naomi Campbell, as well as Juliette Binoche, Rossy De Palma, Eva Green, Paris Jackson, and Catherine Deneuve.
“The 1960s marked a crucial period for Roger Vivier,” he continues, “during which his aesthetic evolved into a more elegant, graphic and pioneering approach to design.”
Precisely this approach is proposed in a two-tone set (checkerboard marble floors and rooms with optical illusions such as spiral vortices) where the new Viv' Choc bag is the protagonist, in monochromatic versions of black and white, in smooth, inlaid leather, in tweed, embellished with soft fringes and stripes decorated with brilliant crystals.
Then the footwear, or 'souliers' as Monsieur Vivier liked to call them (who considered this term more sophisticated than 'chaussures'): there are the monochromatic versions of the Viv'Canard shoes, the cuissardes boots, the Belle Vivier pumps open at the back and decorated with the iconic Pilgrim buckle and the new Viv' Podium ballerinas, made of embroidered velvet and beads, with ankle strap and metal heel.
The homage to the archive continues with the zebra print.
Around a monumental zebra-shaped sculpture there are the season's novelties in suede: the I Love Vivier pumps, the high-heeled ankle boots with metal plateau and the Viv'Choc maxi-bags.
Among the accessories there is also the vest, proposed with metal studs, embroidery, fringes.
Finally, a tribute to the Belle Vivier shoes, worn by Catherine Deneuve in the film Belle de Jour (1965).
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