These Flats Are So Good They Were Acquired by a Major Museum
It's not every day that a museum, especially one as cool as NYC's MoMA, acquires some shoes, so we're here to tell you about it. The shoes in question are none other than the quintessentially French flats made famous by none other than Brigitte Bardot (pictured above). If you guessed the Repetto Cendrillon Ballerina flats, you're correct. The shoes were just recognized by MoMA for their "excellent design" and acquired into the museum's permanent collection. Originally created in 1956, with Bardot as the inspiration for them, the shoes made their debut in her film Et Dieu Créa La Femme. All these decades later, the flats are still beloved by trend-setting celebrities like Karlie Kloss and Alexa Chung, who have been spotted wearing them on repeat over the years.
The timing is impeccable for the induction, as the brand's U.S. CEO, Gilles Assor, recently told Footwear News of his plans to make a big push in the American market. But for many fashion fans, the Cendrillon flats are already a wardrobe staple. Shop our current favorite iterations of the iconic shoes below.
Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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