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Social Sharing
shoes
ca. 1957
Not on view
From 1953 to 1963, the French designer
Roger Vivier partnered with Christian Dior
to create the company’s footwear. These
shoes, probably intended to match an evening
ensemble, were made-to-measure for Jeanne
Magnin, a former model and wife of Grover
Magnin, president of the San Francisco–based
luxury department store I. Magnin & Company.
The style, with its low, skinny heel and ultrapointed
toe, was a popular trend in the United
States during the 1950s and 1960s. For Vivier,
shoes were not merely accessories but works
of art unto themselves.
- Designers
- Roger Vivier, Christian Dior
- House of
- Dior
- Title
- shoes
- Date
- ca. 1957
- Object Type
- Costume
- Medium
- Silk gros de Tour with silk and silver-wrapped thread embroidery (satin and chain stitches, couching); shell, glass seed beads, and glass rhinestones
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Jeanne Magnin
- Accession Number
- 1987.25.24a-b
