Fifth Avenue Gets a Fitting Room for the Vivier Buckle

Roger Vivier has set up Atelier Vivier inside Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, and for the first time an American client can commission the house's shoes and bags to her own specifications without crossing an ocean. The program, which lets a customer choose how a pair of pumps or a handbag is finished rather than taking what is on the shelf, had not been offered anywhere in the United States until now. That it lands on Fifth Avenue rather than anywhere else is the sort of detail this desk keeps a file on: a Paris house, a New York department store, and a buckle that is about to be ordered one pair at a time. The pageant and red-carpet set, who think in terms of the exact shade to match a gown, will know precisely what to do with this.

With reporting from Footwear News.