WINTER 2019

LIKE FRANCK STELLA’S 60’S PAINTINGS WHERE COLOUR DEFINES SHAPE, PIERRE HARDY DESIGNS HIS SHOES BY APPLYING THE SAME ARCHITECTURE AND GRAPHIC PRINCIPLE. THIS STRUCTURAL CONCEPT IS EXPRESSED THROUGH VARIOUS POLYCHROME GEOMETRIC TREATMENTS : A GAME OF STRAIGHT AND BROKEN LINES, CIRCLES OR PUZZLES.  WITH HARDLY ANY NARRATIVE, A FEW OPTICAL ILLUSIONS, TWO OR THREE REFERENCES TO THE STYLISTIC 60’S, PIERRE HARDY DELIVERS AN ABSTRACT AND SENSITIVE COLLECTION. THE HYPNOTIC REPETITIONS OF COLOURED STRIPES ON HIS SCULPTURAL SHOES SOMETIMES FLIRT WITH THE CONCEPTUAL AND SENSUAL OP ART IMAGES. 

SUMMER 2019

PLAYFUL, SOLAR AND LUMINOUS, THE SUMMER 2019 COLLECTION PLAYS AROUND ALL OF PIERRE HARDY’S STYLISTIC CODES. 

LEATHER BAND COMBINATIONS, DIAGONALS AND CONTRASTING CUTS REFLECT THE DESIGNER’S VERY SPECIFIC GRAPHICAL APPROACH. THESE COLOURFUL LINES HIGHLIGHT THE SILHOUETTES OF HIS MODELS, HIGHLIGHTING CIRCLES AND NAÏVE FLOWER MOTIFS. SANDALS, PUMPS, BALLERINAS, DERBIES OR BOOTS, ... NO MATTER THEIR SHAPE OR STYLE, THIS DYNAMIC STYLISTIC PATTERN PUNCTUATES EVERY MODEL. 

IN ITS UNBRIDLED GENEROSITY, THE COLLECTION GOES AS FAR AS BORROWING SNEAKERS FROM THE MEN’S WARDROBE. THE STREET LIFE AND THE VIBE ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN FEMININE HARMONIES. 

WINTER 2018

PIERRE HARDY FEEDS ON AMERICAN WILD WEST CINEMATOGRAPHIC CLICHÉS TO DEFINE AN AUTUMN WINTER COLLECTION FULL OF CONTRASTS.

MEN AND WOMEN HYBRID SHOES, DRESSED MODELS WITH TECHNICAL AND SPORTY ELEMENTS, COUTURE MATERIALS AND ROUGH LEATHERS.

THE SANTIAG BECOMES AN EVENING SHOE AND THE SANDALS TRANSMUTES INTO BOOTS.

FAITHFUL TO HIS GRAPHICAL APPROACH, THE PARISIAN DESIGNER PLAYS ON QUIRKY STYLISTIC EFFECTS. WITH FANTASY AND LIBERTY, THESE MODELS REFLECT A NEW WAY OF LIVING, A MORE FUN AND RELAXED WAY TO DRESS.

SUMMER 2018

BRIGHT SHAPES AND COLOURFUL FORMS COME TOGETHER TO CREATE OPEN-TOED SHOES;

PRINTED CONTRASTING STRIPED RIBBONS WRAP AROUND THE ANKLE UP TO THE THIGH REVEALING THE SHAPE OF THE SANDALS.

COLOUR IS ESSENCE OF THE COLLECTION. THE COLOURS DEFINE THE SHAPES;

THE INFLUENCE OF PIERRE HARDY’S SUMMER 2018 ATELIER COLLECTION IS MINIMALIST LIKE THE AMERICAN ARTISTS.

FAITHFUL TO HIS PASSION FOR GEOMETRICAL ABSTRACTION HE RECREATES SCULPTURAL AND COLOURFUL CANVASES INSPIRED BY THESE VISUAL ARTISTS.

WINTER 2017

THE 2017 WINTER COLLECTION EMITS BOUNDLESS ENERGY AND GLAMOUR BY DRAWING UPON THE HEYDAY OF DISCO.

FEMININITY IS RIGHT AT THE FOREFRONT WITH A PLAY ON RICH AND FLAMBOYANT MATERIALS.

THE DIFFERENT THEMES ARE PUNCTUATED BY VELVET IN AMETHYST, TOPAZ AND EVEN IN BURSTS OF SHOCKING PINK, AS WELL AS BY GLITTER.

PIERRE HARDY ALSO PLAYS ON THE THEME OF DUALITY, WITH THE IDEA OF THE DOUBLE SHOE.

TWO DIFFERENT MODELS MEET IN ORDER TO CREATE JUST ONE. IN SOME CASES ONE STYLE IS BUILT ON TOP OF THE OTHER, PLAYING WITH OPTICAL ILLUSIONS, AND IN OTHER CASES TWO OPPOSING STYLES ARE SET AGAINST EACH OTHER.

SUMMER 2017

THE LINES ARE BOLD SUCH AS THE THICK AND CURVED HEEL, CALLED “MEMPHIS”, WHO SEEMS TO PROUDLY PUFF OUT ITS CHEST.

FROM THE PENNIES – A REFERENCE TO THE POP ART MOVEMENT – TO THE FLOWER CLOUD SHAPED BUCKLES; THESE PLAYFUL ORNAMENTS ADORN THE MODELS OF THE SPRING SUMMER 2019 COLLECTION.

A CONTRAST BETWEEN OVERLAYS AND HOLLOW SPACES; A GAME OF COLLAGE, CRAFT AND OFFSET:

THESE VISUAL EXPERIMENTATIONS DIVERT THE MAJESTIC REFINEMENT FROM THE CLASSICAL SHAPES.

THIS CAPRICIOUS LUXURY OF RANDOM MATERIAL INTUITIVELY OPERATES AS A FLOW-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS CREATION WHERE INSTINCT RULES.

WINTER 2016

PIERRE HARDY BLURS THE LINES, HYBRIDIZES DIFFERENT GENRES AND ASSEMBLES VARIOUS TYPES OF SHOES IN ORDER TO DEFINE A NEW STYLISTIC PROPOSITION.

THUS DAYTIME AND NIGHT-TIME MODELS BLEND TOGETHER, PRECIOUS LEATHERS ARE MIXED WITH HIGH TECH MATERIALS AND SNEAKERS ARE EMBELLISHED WITH SOPHISTICATED DETAILS.

THE WINTER 2016 COLLECTION CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING THEMES:

STYLES THAT CLOSELY WRAP AROUND THE FOOT TO DEFINE A TAUT SILHOUETTE; SANDALS AND SNEAKERS EMBLAZONED WITH TROMPE L’OEIL MAXIMALIST JEWELS; BOOTS AND ANKLE BOOTS CUT SOMBERLY AS ABSTRACT COMPOSITIONS; MODELS BEDECKED WITH ZIPS IN AN ODE TO THE GLORY DAYS OF PUNK.

SUMMER 2016

EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO PLAYFUL CONTRASTS AND TENSIONS IN THE SPRING-SUMMER 2016 COLLECTION, STRUCTURED AROUND TWO MAJOR TRENDS:

A SIXTIES POP AESTHETIC AND A MORE SEVENTIES-STYLE FOLK SPIRIT.

TWO DIFFERENT STYLES COME FACE TO FACE, SOMETIMES MERGING.

ACID COLORS ARE JUXTAPOSED WITH NATURAL TONES, PVC COEXISTING ALONGSIDE NATURAL LEATHER WHEN POINTED BALLERINAS CROSSBREED WITH PLATFORM SHOES.

PIERRE HARDY BLURS THE LINES BETWEEN GENRES TO REFINE FORMALLY POST-MODERN CREATIONS THAT ARE NONETHELESS MODERNIST IN SUBSTANCE.

HE DEFINES A NEW TYPOLOGY FOR SHOES, AS SUITABLE FOR THE DAY AS THEY ARE FOR THE EVENING, AT ONCE STREET AND CHIC, THAT RESPONDS TO THE EVOLUTION OF TODAY’S WAY OF LIFE AND ESTABLISHES NEW SILHOUETTES.

WINTER 2015

EVERYTHING IS A QUESTION OF CONTRASTS, ENCOUNTERS AND UNIONS BETWEEN OPPOSING UNIVERSES.

PIERRE HARDY SHAKES UP CONVENTIONS, WEAVES BRIDGES BETWEEN ERAS AND CROSSBREEDS CULTURES. RATHER THAN OBVIOUS STYLISTIC CITATIONS, HE PREFERS TO CREATE SURPRISE THROUGH CONTRASTING MOTIFS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE SHOES THEMSELVES.

RATHER THAN FEATURING COLLAGES, COMBINATIONS AND MIXING, HE SHOWCASES GRAPHIC EFFECTS, PLAYFUL MOTIFS AND INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS. THE RESULT IS A MISCHIEVOUS AND VIBRANT FORM OF ABSTRACTION.

SUMMER 2015

STYLIZED, CONDENSED, NEAT AND GRAPHIC, THE SPRING- SUMMER 2015 COLLECTION SETS FORTH STRONG AND STRIKING IDEAS : THE MONOLITH HEEL CREATED FOR 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOUSE, THE COLOR BLOCK CUT-OUT, THE USE OF CONTRASTING RAW MATERIALS.

WHETHER IT’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF LILIES, PLACED SYMMETRICALLY AND SERIGRAPHED ON LEATHER, OR SKINS CUT RAW, SKETCHING ROWS OF PEARLS, OR LARGE STRAPS WITH TRIANGLE HOLLOWS, EACH THEMATIC IS THE RESULT OF PRECISE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND HYBRID STYLES. ABSTRACT, PSYCHEDELIC AND POP REFERENCES MINGLE; THE RANGES OF ELECTRICAL COLORS IS REMINISCENT OF THE IDEAL WORKSHOP ARTIST.

WINTER 2014

RENEWING WITH THE VERY ESSENCE OF HIS UNIVERSE, HE COMPOSES SHOES THAT ARE BASED ON VARIATIONS AND THE COMBINATIONS OF GEOMETRIC SHAPES.

MIXING REAL AND FAKE, WITH A MINIMALIST TOUCH, THE WINTER 2014-2015 COLLECTION CONTAINS A ZEST OF POP MISCHIEF.

ITS CONSTRUCTIONS OF SHOES ARE A REMINDER OF URBAN ARCHITECTURE, COMIC STRIPS, THE CINEMA. PIERRE HARDY LIKES TO DWELL ON VISUAL GAMES IN THE ARTISTIC VEIN OF THE NÉO-GÉO TREND GOING BACK TO THE 1990S SUCH AS JOHN M. ARMLEDER, PETER HALLEY AND EVEN PHILIP TAAFFE.

SUMMER 2014

PIERRE HARDY DELIVERS AN ABSTRACT SPRING-SUMMER 2014 COLLECTION, FEATURING CHROMATIC COMPOSITIONS. COLOR SETS THE TONE; IT IS EVEN AFFECTING SHAPES SINCE IT NOW ALSO DETERMINES SHOE SKETCHES.

TONALITIES ARE ARCHITECTURED AROUND CERTAIN MODELS IN A GEOMETRIC MANNER, WHILE OTHERS ARE MORE ORGANIC. PLACED TOGETHER, CHOPPED OR ULTRA HARMONIOUS, PALETTES DEFINE A PLAYFUL, DYNAMIC AND JOYFUL AMBIANCE FOR THE SEASON.

WINTER 2013

VIGOROUS SKETCHES, INTENSE LINES, SHARP GRAPHICS; MORE THAN EVER PIERRE HARDY IS SHOWCASING SCULPTURAL SHOES.

CREATIONS WITH A NEW ARCHITECTURE PLAYING ON THE OPPOSITION OF NEW COVERED SHAPES ARE SHAKENUP WITH SHARP DECORS.

IN THE FALL-WINTER 2013-2014 COLLECTION EVERYTHING IS PUT UNDER TENSION:CONTRASTS BETWEEN DULL OVERTONESAND TOUCHES OF BRIGHT, MAT AND SHINY LEATHERS, MODERNISTIC PURITY AND PUNK TRANSGRESSIONS.

ALL THE ART OF PIERRE HARDY CONSISTS IN BEING HYBRID, TO CONVEY A SENSE OF STYLE AND LOOSEN UP SCATTERED REFERENCES.

SUMMER 2013

REWORKING THE MAIN STANDARDS OF THE SHOE TO RADICALIZE THEM BY DEVELOPING OPEN MODELS, OFF-BEAT VOLUMES, SPIKY HEELS, LEATHER-CUT RAW AND TOXIC COLORS THUS HE DEFINES A VENOMOUS FEMININITY.

A CHIC MIX OF 1940S RETRO VOLUMES, GLAM 197 TOUCHES, GRAPHIC DYNAMICS FROM THE 1980S AND GANGSTA-RAP SAMPLES TOTALLY IN TODAY’S MOOD. CLASHING REFERENCES, THEN SMOOTHED DOWN, SHARPENED AND STYLED TO THE EXTREME FOR A COLLECTION WITH A STRANGE SOPHISTICATION

WINTER 2012

LINES BECOME FLUID. GRAPHICS ARE SUBTLE. REFERENCES HAVE FADED.

EVERYTHING IS INTERLOCKED TO DEFINE A NEW STRONG CLASSICISM THAT IS SUBTLY DISCORDANT.

A COUTURE SPIRIT OF THE 40’S SPARKED BY AN 80’S ROCK TOUCH SETS THE RHYTHM OF THIS COLLECTION WITH DRAMATIC CHIC.

SUMMER 2012

PLAYFUL VOLUMES AND CONTRASTING FABRICS. SHAPES ARE STREAMLINED AND CONSTRUCTIONS WELL-BALANCED.

THE NEW Y HEEL, WITH A VIGOROUS STROKE – MINIMAL COLUMN-SHAPE – EPITOMIZES THE ARCHITECTURAL SPIRIT OF THE 2012 SPRING-SUMMER COLLECTION.

OPPOSITIONS BETWEEN MATERIALS COMING FROM THE SPORTS UNIVERSE AND LUXURIOUS SKINS REINFORCE A SENSE OF STRANGENESS.

WINTER 2011

WHILE HE REMAINS FAITHFUL TO HIS GRAPHIC VENUES, PIERRE HARDY NONETHELESS REDEFINES HIS APPROACH.

AFTER CUTTING EDGE DRAWINGS, A NEW SERIES OF CURVACEOUS VOLUMES ARE NOW IN THE RUNNING, A FEELING OF PROTECTION AND FLUID TENSIONS: A MORE ORGANIC DESIGN.

SHOES ARE VISUALLY STRONG, BUT WITHOUT AGGRESSIVENESS, THEIR PROTECTIVE SHAPES CONSIDERED MORE AS SHELLS.

THIS NEW SOFTNESS ALSO STEMS FROM SUBTLY PLAYING WITH TEXTURES. SUPPLE AND SUAVE MATERIALS INAUGURATE A VOLUPTUOUS MINIMALISM.

SUMMER 2011

PIERRE HARDY ARTICULATES HIS SPRING SUMMER 2011 COLLECTION AROUND 60’S MODERNISM AND 70’S ART.

FAITHFUL TO HIS TASTE FOR GRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS, PIERRE HARDY TAMES THIS SENSUALITY WITH ARCHITECTURAL SHAPES…

FLAT TINTS, PURE LINES AND SCULPTURAL SHAPES DEFINE THE 60’S MODERNIST PENDANTS OF THIS COLLECTION.

A STYLE SOFTLY MINGLING PURE INFLUENCES OF THE BAUHAUS AND JAPANESE ZEN. THIS EVOCATION OF THE GRAND HOURS OF INTERNATIONAL STYLE HAS THE OVERTONE OF A DELICATE SOFTENED POP PALETTE, PLAYFUL AND CONVEYING THE SPIRIT OF A SEASIDE RESORT.

WINTER 2010

STREAMLINED SHAPES OR OVERSIZED VOLUMES WITH ITS GLAMOUR ALLURE OR MARTIAL DEMEANOR, THE FALL/WINTER 2010/2011 COLLECTION IS A STORY OF CONTRASTS.

WHILE REMAINING FAITHFUL TO HIS FETISH GRAPHICS, PIERRE HARDY COUNTERBALANCES THE RADICALISM OF HIS STATEMENT BY A CHOICE OF MUTED AND PRECIOUS COLORS.

HINTS OF METALLIC LEATHERS OR POWDERED SUEDE LEATHERS SET A GLAM-ROCK TEMPO FOR NIGHT TIME ALLURING MODELS. THE FEATHER CARESSES, THE STUDS GLOW.

WINTER 2009

IN THIS COLLECTION, ANATOMIC CURVES MEETS ABSTRACT GRAPHIC LINES. THE STYLES REVEALS THEMSELF AS GRAPHIC, STRONG AND EVEN AGGRESSIVE WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT CLOSELY. IT EVOKES FEMININITY AND STRENGTH, A POWERFUL SENSUALITY.

SUMMER 2009

THIS COLLECTION IS ABOUT TENSION LINES: ROPES, ELASTIC BANDS, LARGE STRAPS ARE CROSSING ON THE FOOT AND DRAW TRIANGLES AND ANGULAR SURFACES THAT BUILD THE SHOES.

WINTER 2008

THE COLLECTION PRESENTS EXUBERANT AND GRAPHIC EFFECTS, CANTILEVERED VOLUMES, STRONG CUT OFF AND FREE LINES. THE SEASON IS AN HOMAGE TO MODERN ART SPECILLAY THE JAMES ROSENQUIST'S WORK.

SUMMER 2008

SUMMER 2008 IS ABOUT TWO OPPOSITE EXPRESSIONS OF WHAT SUMMER IS. THE MOST HISTORIC ICONE OF FEMININITY BY BOTTICELLI AND A FUTURISTIC VISION OF A MODERN MERMAID.

WINTER 2007

SUMMER 2007

A TRIBUTE TO POL BURY WORKS, AN ARTIST AND SCULPTOR OF THE KINETIC ART MOVEMENT. THE INSPIRATION COMES FROM ITS SCULPTURE/FOUNTAIN OF THE “JARDINS DU PALAIS ROYAL” IN PARIS, MADE OF METALLIC SPHERES, MOVING WITH THE WATER AND REFLECTING THE SKY.

THE INSPIRATION COMES ALSO  FROM THE MEMPHIS GROUP AND THE WORK OF ETTORE SOTTSASS, AND THEIR REACTION AGAINST THE SLICK, BLACK AND HUMORLESS DESIGN AND THE CONVENTIONAL SHAPE.

WINTER 2006

THE ACCENT IS ON THE VOLUME, PLAYING WITH THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE FULL AND THE EMPTY, IN VERY CONTRASTING MAT AND SHINNY MATERIALS, VOLUMES AND FLAT SURFACES

SUMMER 2006

STRONG OPTIC EFFECTS PLAYING WITH CONTRASTING STRAPS. 

HOMAGE TO THE SIXTIES OP’ART (BUREN, VASARELY…). IN OPPOSITION, THE BLACK PLUMETI TULE SANDAL ILLUSTRATES THE MOST FEMININE EXPRESSION PLAYING WITH CLICHE OF WHAT « GIRLY » IS.

WINTER 2005

REMINISCENCE OF THE DISCO DAYS OF A BYGONE ERA, STUDIO 54 COLLECTION CREATES OF CONTRAST BETWEEN SOFT SUEDE AND METTALIC LEATHER.

SUMMER 2005

THIS SEASON, GEOMETRY BECOMES MORE SOPHISTICATED PLAYING WITH DIFFERENT TYPE OF VOLUME AND WEIGHT : HEAVY BLOCKS OR CURVY HEELS, STRAIGHT LINE AND DYNAMIC CURVES.

WINTER 2004

SUMMER 2004

WINTER 2003

THIS SEASON RHYMES WITH STRONG VOLUMES, CONTRASTING WITH DELICATE AND FEMININE SHAPES. ABSTRACTION CONFRONTING FIGURATIVE PATTERN.

SUMMER 2003

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WINTER 1999