

After the fact, things often take on an importance that they did not originally have, as you well know.” The Belle de Jour by Roger Vivier became an icon and the rest, as they say, is history. “And since Roger Vivier was already doing a lot of work for Yves Saint Laurent, I think the idea came to me quite naturally.

“Yves Saint Laurent was dressing me for the film,” Deneuve recalls of this fateful moment in time. This was only the beginning of what will be a lasting relationship between Deneuve and Roger Vivier.


It was 1967 when French actress Catherine Deneuve made history as she played the lead role in Luis Buñuel’s film “Belle de Jour” wearing a pair of black pumps with a large metal buckle – classically elegant shoes that would later carry the same name as the film.
