Word: vivier
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DIED. ROGER VIVIER, 90, innovative shoe designer for the unsurpassingly well heeled; in Toulouse, France. Vivier, creator of the stiletto heel, won devotees including Marlene Dietrich and Queen Elizabeth II, for whom he designed gold coronation sandals...
Ferragamo returned to Italy in 1927, establishing himself in Florence, and eventually the world beat a path to his door. Along with Andre Perugia and Roger Vivier, he became one of the great shoe designers of the 20th century -- a century when shoes came into their own as hemlines first rose above the ankles. Whereas Perugia's shoes are more exquisitely balanced and Vivier's have more graceful lines (he made Ferraris for the feet), Ferragamo was the great improviser and engineer. He thought with his hands. He never made drawings of shoes, but constructed them by pulling pieces...