In news that may have surprised fashion commentators years ago, Jimmy Choo will produce the footwear for the Off-White’s Paris Fashion Week show. Today, on a playing field definitively levelled by the mammoth Louis Vuitton X Supreme collaboration, the footwear label’s announcement feels right on time.
The collaboration was made known by way of a short video offering a glimpse inside the Jimmy Choo atelier, as staff busied themselves with snake skins, silver sparkles and tulle. As the footwear giant writes, “This marks the inaugural time that Jimmy Choo has collaborated on a commercial shoe collection with a ready-to-wear designer.”
Off-White’s collection is said to be inspired by the late Princess Diana, who Virgil Abloh has made his muse for the season. (The video offers a brief glimpse at moodboard filled with photographs of the royal). This year marks the 20th anniversary of her death.
The presentation will be screened live on Jimmy Choo’s Facebook this Thursday, September 28th at 8:00PM GMT.