Storied Parisian footwear label Roger Vivier has unveiled a poetic new chapter in its Pièce Distinctive story, deepening its homage to its home motif – the rose – teaming up with Parisian embroidery atelier Maison Lesage.
Titled La Rose Vivier Pièce Distinctive, the collaborative assortment continues the floral thread from its Autumn/Winter 25 ready-to-wear line.
Roger Vivier himself labored carefully with Lesage within the Nineteen Eighties, integrating embroidery into his visionary designs. This newest assortment reimagines that historical past by a contemporary lens, reworking reminiscence into tangible objects of artwork.
Inventive Director Gherardo Felloni, who has helmed the Maison since 2018, drew from Lesage’s expansive archive – dusty bins of beaded appliqués, fragments of vintage material, and forgotten textures – to encourage eight Efflorescence Jewel luggage and two exquisitely embroidered gilets. However, because the model places it: “This isn’t homage, nor replica, however interpretation.”
Even the presentation house, the Salle d’Argent at Roger Vivier’s headquarters, was remodeled to reflect the inventive narrative. Swathed in pale yellow velvet, the room glows with heat whereas ceramic rose petals in mushy pink and honey drift throughout the partitions. Some cradle the baggage, making them half set up, half objet trouvé.
“This assortment is a research in contrasts: softness and sharpness, custom and transformation, the pure and the extraordinary,” the model stated in its assertion. “Via the palms of Lesage and the imaginative and prescient of Roger Vivier, the rose is reborn – timeless, however by no means nonetheless.”
Felloni’s theatrical but meticulous method continues to evolve Roger Vivier’s legacy, increasing the home past footwear right into a broader world of craft-focused luxurious.
