This exclusive capsule created in collaboration between Le Monde Béryl and creative consultant Kim Sion is now available. Compromising of three brand new silhouettes, Le Monde Béryl Kim Sion features the Cherry Mule, the Madison Boot and the Sable Pump. These come with specifically created packaging, including snakeskin print boxes and black PVC shoe bags featuring a dual logo which have been designed specifically for the project by Sion and Michael Nash Associates. Campaign imagery is captured by artist Lorena Lohr. 

The design language of Le Monde Béryl Kim Sion marries elegantly reduced, explicit lines with a confident and bold allure. The Madison Boot zips skintight against the leg, the round toe Sable Pump features a super low decolleté and the Cherry Mule is lacquered in a slick black gloss - each design sits on a striking triangular heel. The palette is rich, dark and shiny: black, bordeaux, khaki and deep blue. Each shape and component were developed entirely from scratch between Sion and the Le Monde Béryl team. 

Sion likens shoes to underwear; the way they fit, the way a heel can shape a leg or accentuate muscles. “Actually, when I buy a new pair of shoes I alway try them on at home wearing only underwear. I’m never going to wear them like that but it’s feels like a wonderful fantasy,’ she says. The Le Monde Béryl Kim Sion collection is designed to evoke a strong, elegant and playful take on sexiness. 

Throughout the project, Sion considered female archetypes as inspiration, such as beauty pageant queens or backing singers and dancers. An obscure photography book she found in Berlin, ‘Soviet Beauty Queens’, which documents various beauty contests in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Beauty Institute between 1988 and 1990, was central to Sion’s idea of celebrating the female form.“These pictures give me goosebumps,” she says. “Everything about these women, the attitude, the hair and makeup, what they’re wearing, the line of the shoes, the way they walk. They’re just so beautiful to me.” 

Other visual references included the glaze finishes of the ceramic work of American artist Ron Nagle, a vintage photograph of two trapeze artists Sion found at the Chiswick Antique Fair, Japanese fake food - specifically an ice-cream sundae - and glossy 1970s glacier cherries.