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Verve
Ivory open-toe sandals with ornate gold heels on a marble hotel floor

Maison Collection · 2026

Verve

Height, as a language.

Handmade couture heels, designed around a three-dimensional portrait of your foot. Leather, then gold, then silver — made to fit you, and no one else.

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A heel is a line drawn in the air. We draw it around your foot — never a size.

Atelier note · Paris

01 — Collection

Six silhouettes. Your last.

Each pair is handmade around a last taken from a three-dimensional portrait of your foot, then finished in leather, gold, and silver. Open a shoe to read the line, the heel, and the hide.

Ivory open-toe sandals with gilt heels standing in a chandelier-lit lobby

02 — The house

Made to the foot.

We do not begin with a size. We begin with you — a private sitting in which we take a three-dimensional portrait of the foot. From that portrait a last is grown, and the sandal is designed around it until the fit is already a fact.

Every pair is handmade. The hide is leather of the first order; the heel is coated in gold or silver as jewellery is coated — not painted, not plated in haste.

The atelier sits between Paris and the last-makers who still carve by eye. Nothing is rushed to a season it does not belong to.

“The last is not a size. It is a portrait.”

03 — Film

The collection, in motion.

Two short looks from the Maison campaign. Sound off — the shoes do the speaking.

Atelier — ivory open-toe, gilt heel
Céleste — champagne sandal, gilt heel

04 — Atelier

Handmade around you.

A sitting. A last. A shoe that could belong to no other foot. We model the foot in three dimensions, design the sandal around that portrait, and finish it by hand in leather, gold, and silver.

A porcelain three-dimensional portrait of the foot on marble, gold calipers beside it

I — The portrait

We model the foot.

In a private sitting we take a three-dimensional portrait of your foot. Not a measurement — a sculpture, exact to you.

Hands wrapping ivory leather around a custom last carved as a woman’s foot

II — The last

We design around it.

From that portrait a last is grown in maple. The sandal is built on it — strap, throat, and open toe — until the fit is silent.

Tuscan leather with gold leaf and silver leaf, a stiletto heel being gilded

III — The metal

Leather, gold, silver.

French and Tuscan hides. Heels coated in gold or silver as jewellery is coated. Edges inked by hand. Walked before they leave.

The Verve salon: an ivory open-toe sandal with a gilt heel on a travertine pedestal

The salon

By appointment.

A private sitting to take the portrait of the foot, then a pair made to it. Paris, London, and New York — by appointment.

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05 — Enquire

Write to the house.

Tell us the pair and the city. We will arrange a sitting to model the foot, then make the sandal around that last — in leather, gold, and silver.

Paris — shown privately, Le Marais

London — shown privately, Mayfair

New York — shown privately, Upper East Side

atelier@verveheels.com