1940 | ANDRE PERUGIA | THE ARCH-LESS SHOE OR: PERUGIA V/S LOUIS VUITTON ET AL

1940 | André Perugia | The arch-less shoe

Photograph by François Kollar

Source: Europeana

Spring 1940 | Paris Portfolio

André Perugia arch-less shoes

Unknown magazine

Now, while her (Mrs. Philip Lydig) shoes are on exhibition in the Museum of Costume Art (1), Perugia has brought out a new school of shoes that are triumphs of his craft, true museum pieces. Light and airy, with graceful curving lines, they are built with a space under the instep so that the natural arch of the foot is the only bridge between heel and toe. They are beautiful, bizarre, and wonderfully comfortable.

The Proud Foot

From: Harper's Bazaar | April 1940

1940 | André Perugia
The arch-less shoe Patent USD 119397
Source: Google Patents

1940 | André Perugia for Saks Fifth Avenue

© Copyright 2012 The Museum at FIT

1940 | André Perugia for Saks Fifth Avenue
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1940 | André Perugia
The arch-less shoe x-rayed

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Above: 1940 André Perugia Archless Patent
Below: 2006 Extreme Babouche Hole Rip-Off Pump

ANDRE PERUGIA
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FOOTNOTES

(1)
The astounding Rita de Acosta Lidyg collection of Pierre Yantorny shoes now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


(2)
Before & After LOUIS VUITTON

1950s | Unknown label | American

Source: SHOES (Workman Publishing, 1996)

CA. 1965 | Unknown label

White Patent Leather Faux Croc Vamp With Gold Wedge Heel

Source: Jonathan Walford

1994 | Diego Dolcini | The model Dalì

Source: Scarpe (Rizzoli, 2010)

Surrealism-inspired sabot says the caption

Arch-less shoes post Y2K

Top left - René van den Berg, 2000
Right - Nicola Lawler, 2012 - 2013 -Photograph: Regina Smith Popp
Bottom left - Alexander Wang, 2015