Word: vivier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that made up in sex appeal what they lost in good sense. Out of the imaginary exercise came a composite photo of a rather lovely Liz, but one that her subjects will probably never see, inside or outside Buckingham Palace...
...that Rudi is all that wild about horses. It's just that he has this gas about things South American; so naturally that led to an Yves St. Laurent Argentine pony-skin jacket to set off a dashing pair of matching boots by Paris' Roger Vivier. Gaucho Rudi wears the getup whenever the mood strikes him, as with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Princess Margaret at a Knightsbridge mansion, where the Princess helped kick off a fund-raising campaign to provide new facilities for the Royal Academy of Dancing...
...shoe of shoes was the one that was almost invisible: a clear plastic model decorated with baubles and bangles that appeared to float on the foot. Launched this week by Yves St. Laurent, who shows 40 pairs, the shoe is the creation of Roger Vivier, 52, Paris master bottier who now designs for nine major Paris couturiers...
...Plastic is the material of the present, of the future," says Vivier. He swears his plastic shoes won't cut or heat up the foot (there are tiny airholes along the arch). In fact, he sees the new plastique as an engineering feat: "Nothing is more flattering. These shoes lengthen the foot, make it look narrower, and even seem to make big feet look smaller...
...brown, red or black) around the head. Feet, as well as bodies, are treated considerately once more after seasons of cramping toes into shoes that darted into stiletto points or simply blunted off the second joints, the rounded-toe look is back-although Dior's Roger Vivier keeps his shoes squared...