The inventor of both the stiletto heel and the leg-flattering thigh-high vinyl boot, Roger Vivier used everything from fairy tale-inspired embroidery to transparent plastic, metallic kid-skin to metal mesh, to create bold fashion caprices without losing sight of classical proportions. Highlights from Vivier's 60-year career are shown here, including Queen Elizabeth's gold coronation shoes and Vivier's cutout artworks based on his shoe designs..Each volume in this series of slim monographs uses full- and double-page photographs, undiluted with captions, to reveal a particular genius of design, art, or fashion. The quality of the photos is quite high, a foreword or preface by an author close to the subject sets the importance of the work seen, and the illustrations are captioned in a thumbnail appendix.
80 pages