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What Manolo Blahnik is to shoes today, Maud Frizon was in the 1960s and 70s. Her shoes were coveted, collected, and worn with pride. In the 1960s and 70s Maud Frizon shoes were something to aspire to. When you wore a pair of Maud Frizon shoes you walked a little taller, knowing that you had something special. The photo above is of a vintage pair of golden metallic leather and embroidered Maud Frizon shoes from her Paris salon.
Maud Frizon was a fashion designer specializing in women's shoes. She began her career in the 1960s as a model for Parisian Haute Couture Houses of Nina Ricci, Jean Patou, and André Courrèges. At the time models had to provide their own shoes to match the clothes designers assigned them for their runway shows and photo shoots. Frizon disliked the available shoes from other designers, and in 1969 elected to create her own and opened her first boutique in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris.
That first shoe collection, with each pair hand-cut and finished, was praised by critics as sexy and unpredictable. Frizon was an immediate success. Building on the traditions of Beth Levine and foreshadowing the later designs of Manolo Blahnik, Frizon shoes were showy and extravagant, and her name joined the ranks of the haute couture boutiques. At the height of her success in the 1980s her reputation was similar to that of Blahnik today.
Frizon often used expensive and everyday materials together in unusual combinations: lizard and snake, suede and satin, canvas and crocodile. Brigitte Bardot was a regular at the boutique, famous for her love of Frizon's high-heeled Russian boots.
While the brand of Maud Frizon still exists (she sold the company), the shoes do not have the same flair and elegance of her original designs. Original Maud Frizon shoes are still something to aspire to.
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