Monday, November 30, 2015

1956 | ANDRE PERUGIA | THE CAPE


1956 | André Perugia | The Cape
Source: Chicago Tribune

FAMED SHOE DESIGNER WILL DISPLAY HIS OLD AND NEW CREATIONS HERE 
A collection of shoes, including some originally designed by André Perugia for Paul Poiret, famed Paris couturier of the World War I period, will be presented by Perugia in the I.Miller Shoe department at Carson Pirie Scott & Co. tomorrow… 
… the Cape, the current costume love of Paris, is interpreted in a soft wrapped silhouette with a flaring flange like throat. This shoe introduces a new material called Gaslight, sheer as a cobweb but strong as steel. 
Evelyn Livingstone
Chicago Tribune | September 26, 1956


1956 | Perugia's The Cape highlighted | Detail
Source: Perugia-Poiret Shoe Ideas - 1918 or 1956? (2 page spread on Vogue magazine)


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1930's | 1956 | André Perugia | The Cape
Source: Shoes by Linda O'Keeffe (Workman Publishing, 1996)