a pair of shoes: serge gainsbourg and his repetto

During the last two decades of his life, Serge Gainsbourg wore precisely one style of shoes:
Repetto’s narrow lace-up Zizi Hommes in snow-white calfskin.


“Unbeknown to many, Serge Gainsbourg, the seminal French singer and style icon, had sensitive feet.
Boots hurt him.
He hated walking. His only salvation was calfskin jazz shoes made by Repetto,
the French dance shoe company.
Jane Birkin, then his lover, turned him on to the supple shoes in the early '70s.
''Serge was looking for gloves for his feet,'' she told Les Inrockuptibles, the French music magazine. Originally designed by Rose Repetto for her daughter-in-law,
the ballet dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, the lace-up shoes served Gainsbourg well.
According to Repetto lore, he went through 30 pairs a year, always in white, until his death in 1991.”
NYTimes





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