Jerome C. Rousseau is in town from Los Angeles for a few days, showing his fall 2010 collection out of Soho House in the Meatpacking District, and he dropped by Vogue so we could see what he’d been up to these past few months. Plenty, by the look of things. The Québec-born designer, who has been in business for three years, reeled off a list of influences that suggests his Netflix queue is constantly being updated, and that Amazon is always delivering to the door of his home in Beachwood Canyon: “Vivienne Westwood, not so much the clothes, but the attitude . . . the late seventies—I was looking at 70s Style and Design, which I’ve had on my coffee table for a while . . . Fritz Lang’s Metropolis . . . the French actress Roxane Mesquida—she has that perfect look of having just got out of bed and decided to walk along the Seine . . . am I talking too much?” No, not at all, but let’s take a pause and look at the collection. Aside from the late-seventies feel—metallic “disco” leather shoes with ruffled edges; brown snakeskin peep-toe ankle boots—there is also a new ankle-boot shape he is trying, with tie-dyed leather that resembles denim, crisscrossed with straps and resting on a chunky triangular heel. “It started out as a wedge,” he says of that heel, “but it looked too ordinary. So I just cut it some of it out.” And given the reaction of various Vogue editors who’d turned out to meet him, it worked. —Mark Holgate
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