Patrick Shields

French Shoes-2007: Les Souliers Francais Patrick Shields

In a round-about-way, demand for a closer inspection of the shoe designs of Patrick Sart necessitates this third volume, French Shoes 2007. He further expounds on this subject: Always au courant, you start with bits and pieces, a squiggle here and there, to assemble, to construct a truly original shoe. A vision of artistic interpretation for the coming season of passion not necessarily fashion. A perception of detail is repeated-perhaps in a silhouette of the shoes on pages 32 and 168 sans la material prima one should notice, for example, on page 235. By merely thumbing through marvelously comprehensive book one can discover a particularly sublime sketch that could be transmorphed into always wearable-meaning comfy-shoe. "But not for the lady traipsing to the corner market.", harps the culture maven, Paige Forrest. The old world craftsmanship in their products excels beyond even the most recherch¿ ateliers, ne'cest pas? -where hype is unknown or the element of provocateur-oui?non? Sart simply dismisses these diversions and comments, "They are usually meant for the lush enjoyment and collection with no wedges meaning heels to a point"