Karl Lagerfeld
Few were surprised when Rupert Sanderson was snapped up by Karl Lagerfeld to design shoes for his AW09 collection, but how did their collaboration come about?
Well, according to Grazia, the legendary Lagerfeld spotted Rupert's Piccadilly shoes on a lady in Paris and decided that he had to have them. You know, as you do.
So a fashion collaboration was set in motion and what Karl wants, obviously he gets.
Rupert confessed to the magazine that Karl has initially wanted the shoes embellished in a range of different colours.
True to form however, he then changed his mind and asked Rupert to pare them down, so they were almost identical to the original design.
Hilariously, in the end there were so many versions of the now infamous shoe, that Rupert didn't known which shoes would grace the runway until the day of the show.
Oh well, despite the confusion, Rupert can definitely rest easy that his fabulous shoes were the icing on the cake, to an already amazing collection.