Roger Vivier was one of the most iconic shoe designers of the fifties and sixties. He first came to prominence for the elegant stilettos he designed for Christian Dior's New Look of 1947, and was employed by the couture house until the early 1960s. His Pilgrim shoe for Yves Saint Laurent is perhaps
"Creation is the result of activity and not thinking. It is activity that generates ideas which, themselves, give rise to other ones. It is a process in the course of which decisive choices are made in a mysterious way. It is the automatism with which the farmer ploughs the fields, a phenomenon that
Lucien Lelong, a couturier who epitomized modern Parisian elegance for thirty years, was born into theworld of high fashion in 1889. His parents were the owners of AE Lelong, a small couture house at 18, place de la Madeleine. By the early 1920s, Lelong had transformed his parents house into the Mais