Boot
Designer
Paul Poiret
(1879 - 1944)
Manufacturer
Favereau
c. 1918
Olive lambskin leather
Museum purchase
Object number2005.45.1
These boots are from the personal wardrobe of Denise Poiret, wife and muse of the great couturier, Paul Poiret. Madame Poiret caused a sensation by wearing a similar pair in 1913, when the Poirets toured New York City. Her brightly colored, knee-high boots had already "stopped traffic in Paris," according to Palmer White, in "Poiret".
DescriptionPair of high riding boots in olive green lambskin; low stacked heelExhibitions