Three years after Bruno Frisoni launched his eponymous shoe label in 1999-a pump composed of denim scraps sourced from a vintage jacket was an early creation-he was asked to revive Roger Vivier, the storied French house that remains indelible thanks to a square-buckled cameo on Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour. By the time Frisoni showed his final Vivier collection in 2018-he'd shuttered his own line in 2011-he had cemented his reputation as a fantastical designer adept at using everything from feathers, jewels, and embroidery with a reckless, dreamy abandon.
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