Rodolphe Menudier biography


1961: born in Saint Emilion (Gironde)
1987: diploma AFPIC
1989: meets Karl Lagerfeld
1994: first collection, “High Tech Couture”
2000: first boutique in Paris, Rue de Castiglione
2006: set up of RM/SM, with Saverio Moschillo

When Karl Lagerfeld called him for Chloé, in 1989, Rodolphe Menudier had already created many footwear collections on a freelance basis, in France, Italy and Japan. There followed various collaboration projects with major fashion houses such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Paco Rabanne and more recently Dior.

In 1994, Rodolphe Menudier launched a line of his own: six models entitled “Haute Couture High Tech”, all uncompromisingly avant-garde. The vision they projected was of a seductive woman elegant to the point of obsession. The singular architecture of Rodolphe Menudier shoes expresses lightness underpinned by rigour, a paradox that might well constitute the quintessence of femininity.

Austere plexiglass and metal courting precious leather gives quite a thrill and casts its net of seduction very wide. From the heights of their high heels, Rodolphe Menudier shoes ingenuously feign indecision between a rock vocation and ecstatic luxury.
Approval was unanimous: the press and clientele recognized his extremely personal stylistic domain featuring opposite or complementary codes, which he was not slow to violate.

In 1996, Rodolphe Menudier created his first men’s collection: “Pour que les femmes se sentent moins seules”.