In Her Shoes

The always-original Chloë Sevigny tries out the surprising new collaboration between Miu Miu and Church's.

- By Liam Hess

It’s a baking hot summer evening in Connecticut, and Chloë Sevigny is preparing to try on a shoe. She’s spending the week with her mother and her three-year-old son while her husband, gallerist Siniša Mačković, travels to an art fair. “I thought it would be more fun than single-parenting in the city for a week,” Sevigny says with a wink from her brother’s bedroom, where she’s illuminated only by the glow of her iPhone screen over FaceTime.

From a powder pink box, with all the ceremony of a white-gloved art handler appraising a masterpiece, Sevigny lifts a pair of brogues in lacquered tobacco leather. The piece is the product of a new collaboration between Miu Miu and British shoe manufacturer Church’s: Available as either a lace-up or a monk strap, in black or tobacco-glossed brushed leather, the shoes were first spotted on the runway of Miu Miu’s fall 2023 collection. (The very eagle-eyed among us might also have sighted them being worn by Miuccia Prada herself while taking a bow at the end of the Prada menswear show in June.)