Click clack! Killer heels are back, baby

The fashion pack are kicking off their flats at long last - and Roger Vivier, the label behind the stiletto, is here for the ride

- BY JOE BROMLEY

“Thank goodness,” one socialite-slash-model exhaled into my ear during an art-world soirée in a Chelsea penthouse amid Frieze week this October. “Everyone is finally back in their heels again.”

I scanned the marble floor and it was click-clacking indeed. The trend isn't confined to the British capital - it's part of a wider high-heel renaissance which has travelled from New York Fashion Week and on to the various parties of Paris as well. Stylish women (and not a few men) are once again kicking off their ballet flats and trainers and teetering into the night a few inches taller.

This is not news to Roger Vivier, the French label founded in 1937 by the man who invented the modern-day stiletto. At the beginning of this month, during Paris Fashion Week, the brand flung open the doors of its freshly renovated Maison Vivier, on the Left Bank's Rue de l'Université, for a bustling event which more than proved the style pack's enthusiasm for evenings on the town supported by killer pumps.

The international great and good, including Naomi Campbell, Shailene Woodley and Sarah Paulson, strutted into the townhouse where they were welcomed into the grandly named Salon de l'Héritage.

The museum-style space showcases a history of the Roger Vivier brand, known for providing the heels the late Queen Elizabeth wore at her coronation, as well as the favourite shoes of screen queens Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve.