“Hermès is a very luxury brand, but it’s about horses and animals, so I wanted to link this roughness to something much more feminine,” designer Pierre Hardy tells Style.com of his newest Hermès Haute Bijouterie collection. Yesterday, the designer, who has helmed the French brand’s jewelry and footwear for 20 years (and also does the [...]

The New York skyline reconfigured as a glittering pump—that’s what you can expect to find at Pierre Hardy’s new West Village shop (left), his first in the U.S. and third worldwide, which opens this Wednesday. Hardy and David Mann of MR. Architecture + Decor gutted an old garage on a quiet strip of Jane Street [...]

Word spread like wildfire last week when we reported that Pierre Hardy’s much-anticipated new suede and leather wedge bootie for Gap (the only one of the several styles previewed that’ll actually see production) was coming to stores. The shoes were due to arrive tomorrow, but owing to a delay, they’ll now hit stores October 28. [...]

There are high/low collaborations that get more press and that inspire longer, round-the-block lines, and then there are those that soldier away, season after season, delivering quality stuff. Put Pierre Hardy’s affordable footwear for the Gap in the latter category. His latest creation, a peep-toe black suede wedge accented with leather trim, debuts at Gap [...]

Courtney Love reprised Gaga’s “Bad Romance” at Givenchy’s after-party last night (above). Let’s go to the video, shall we? [Vimeo via @THEMISSHAPES]When Gisele tells you to keep going, you keep going. The Brazilian supe was having such a good time at Paris Vogue’s 90th anniversary bash that she whispered to DJ Nick Cohen that he [...]

Required reading for the morning: Cathy Horyn’s take on the late Alexander McQueen from yesterday’s New York Times. [NYT]The buzz last week—the non-caffeinated one—was all about Karl’s new Coca-Cola Light bottle. Turns out the Lagerfeld has shot a campaign for it, too, starring Coco Rocha (in a Lagerfeldian foulard) and bottle service by KL favorite [...]

On Tuesday, the troika behind the Webster in Miami—Frederic Dechnik, Laure Heriard Dubreuil, and Milan Vukmirovic (pictured)—took over the private salons of the Maison Baccarat to introduce selected friends to the Louis XIII Rare Cask by Rémy Martin. Dressed in a plunging, lace-up black dress by Joseph Altuzarra, Dubreuil noted that despite the fashionable guest [...]

To the naked eye, it would seem like a strange place to have a shoe store: a seemingly residential neighborhood with what looks like government building on a square. But as Giovanna Battaglia explained to me at Pierre Hardy’s shop on the Place de la Palais Bourbon, looks can be deceiving. On the opposite side [...]

The chic set celebrated the joy of high heels last night at the 10-year anniversary fête for Parisian cobbler Pierre Hardy. Actress Joana Preiss, who spent the majority of the night sitting down with the likes of friends Nicolas Ghesquière and Hide Nakata, explained that the real pain after breaking her foot two months [...]

Last Thursday night, Angelenos gathered in Venice for a pre-opening party to celebrate the U.S. debut of the avant-garde footwear salon Mona Moore. Known in Montreal and online (Cate Blanchett is a fan) as the place to score shoes right off the runway, the well-edited boutique features labels such as Ann Demeulemeester, Pierre Hardy, Dries [...]