Visitors also enjoyed the jewels of his oeuvre-the shoes that his working process wrought into perfection.įrom the St. Visitors to the exhibition saw never before exhibited drawings by Vivier and pull-overs designed for Christian Dior which illuminate his working process. The Bata Shoe Museum’s Vivier holdings were complemented by loans from world-renowned institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Deutsch Ledermuseum in Germany and the Roger Vivier brand. The focus of Roger Vivier: Process to Perfection was on the working process of Vivier and his masterpieces of shoe design. Throughout his illustrious career Vivier ceaselessly sought to refine his process and continually strove for perfection. Ever engaged in designing shoes, Vivier worked right up until his death in 1998 at the age of 90. Throughout his career, Vivier proved to be extremely responsive to cultural shifts and he remained devoted exploring the artistic potential of shoe design. Among his many successes include the pilgrim buckle shoe popularized by Catherine Deneuve, which sold in the thousands, the thigh high boot popularized by Bridget Bardot and the reintroduction of the platform shoe. After Dior’s death, Vivier continued to produce elegant footwear for the House of Dior but in 1963 he set out on his own. During his time with Dior his shoes were the epitome of mid-century glamour and Vivier’s early training in scuplture at École des Beaux Arts is evident in the sculptural heels and toes he designed for Dior. Vivier’s career was established in the 1950s when he became the shoe designer for Christian Dior. Many of his innovations, such as the needle, choc and comma heels are as important in fashion today as when he first introduced them. Roger Vivier: Process to Perfection focused on the designer who was renowned for the bejewelled and elegantly sculptural shoes that he created throughout his life. So in my imagery, for example, I’ll wear the headpiece of a niqab along with a really skimpy outfit.To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams. I resonate with the former, totally, but exploring the latter has also been a feature of my work. I think there’s a difference between the spiritual manifestation of religion and the institutional application. There’s mandatory hijab for women, there are restrictions on how men and women can interact in public. But with the current regime, there’s this oppressive aspect to the way that religion is imposed or integrated into the culture, right? It’s an Islamic Republic. We don’t like to follow rules, which is ironic considering the current regime. Persian culture is richly poetic and beautiful, and it's a culture of revolutionaries in a sense. And in some ways, I was raised between Iran and Cleveland, which are like super extreme opposites. I spent all of my summers growing up in Iran. Both of my parents are from Iran and I was raised Muslim. Like, if I'm going to see a show, there has to be something crazy and engaging and exciting happening. That’s been a major turning point, sharing the stage with a band and experiencing the freedom of not having to carry everything by myself and being able to experiment with the performance more because that's really important. We had something like 13 dates booked out across Europe and my friend Spencer Light called me up and was like, “I'm in Berlin and I can play guitar for you.” After that we came back to New York and put a full band together. Then over the summer I went to Berlin to start a tour with my friend Elusin, who I made a song called “Spell” with a few months ago and Evanora. Until this past summer 2023, it was always just me and a backing track. You continued playing all over New York this year, then you went on another tour in Europe? Were you learning to perform as you went?100%. It was this moment where we were starting to feel like a scene of these really talented female artists taking shape and people were interested. I remember this one show you played with Thoom and She Diamond around that time so clearly because it was you all on the bill, and all these other girls that make music in New York like Ren from Club Eat and Miss Madeline in the audience.
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