Wednesday, August 29, 2012

1965 | THE NEW LINE | FEATURING ROGER VIVIER AND FERRARIO |



1965 | (L) Shoe by Ferrario 
(R): Roger Vivier | Evening boot with matching lace spat 
Source: Domenica del Corriere 

La SS33 si incrocia con Parigi: Ferrario di Parabiago e Roger Vivier sono i due nomi chiamati a rappresentare le nuove tendenze della calzatura.

Sintesi dalle sfilate di Roma, Parigi e Firenze..
Il 1964 era stato l’anno del lancio della 'Space Age' collection di Courrèges: gonne cortissime, linea svasata, stivaletti bianchi, caschi spaziali. Nel 1965 La media delle gonne oscilla da metà ginocchio a una spanna sopra, agli stivaletti si sono alternate le ghette o grosse calze, o scarpe accollatissime che abbracciano la caviglia, ma l’effetto è simile.” 
Da un articolo di Marta Schiavi | Domenica del Corriere – Agosto 1965

SS33 meets France: Ferrario from Parabiago and Roger Vivier from Paris are here to represent the latest footwear trends.
Report from the fashion shows in Rome, Paris and Florence.The launch of the 'Space Age' collection by Courrèges was in 1964: flared short skirts, white boots, spatial helmets. In 1965 “The average skirts lenght ranges from mid-knee to a few inches above, the boots are replaced by spats or thick stockings or high instep shoes covering the ankle, but the effect is similar.”  
Source: Marta Schiavi in the weekly “Domenica del Corriere” - August 1965


1965 | ROGER VIVIER
Design For A Buckled Shoe
[Vivier For YSL & Catherine Deneuve]

Monday, August 27, 2012

1938 | FERRAGAMO DOESN'T BRING HAPPINESS

1938 | Salvatore Ferragamo | Detail
Source: LIFE - February 7, 1938


The may be ugly, but “these uncomfortable clogs” bring forward - although simplified - the concept of the wooden divided sole (or articulated sole) patented by André Perugia in 1929.

Apparently the relevant Ferragamo patent doesn’t exist, but the same notion made its way in a 1943 Ferragamo patent of a well know shoe, a multicolored wooden split platform wedge, carved and painted.


1943 | Salvatore Ferragamo
Multicolored wooden split platform wedge | carved and painted
Source: Archivi della Moda del Novecento

Later the same year French designer Leandre Gregoire Renaldo patented a split platform based on the very same idea, only the rear part of the sole was different in design.



1938 | Wearing Ferragamos and yet so sad
Source: LIFE - February 7, 1938

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

1959 | VINCI | PARABIAGO, MILAN |

1959 | VINCI by N. & R. Rovellini
Parabiago, Milan


PARABIAGO'S
FOOTWEAR EXHIBITION [1954 - 1960]
PART 1 | PART 2