Mia Goth put the focus on the heel at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, pairing a custom Dior dress with Roger Vivier’s black satin Marlene Strass sandals in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The pair carried one of the clearer novelty-heel trends currently picking up steam: a crystal boule set low at the base of a slim stiletto, turning a minimal sandal into something much more specific.
Mia Goth in Roger Vivier Marlene Strass sandals at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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Goth wore the Marlene in black satin with a square open toe, a single broad band across the front and a thin ankle strap fastened with a small crystal buckle. From the front, the shoe read spare and clean. From the back, Roger Vivier’s signature detail came into view. A pavé crystal sphere sat just above the heel tip, interrupting the line of the stiletto without widening the silhouette. The style is priced at $1,345.
A closer look at Mia Goth’s Roger Vivier sandals with a pavé crystal sphere just above the heel tip.
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That jeweled sphere tied Goth into a small but noticeable run of orb-led heel details this season. In February, Ashley Graham wore Charles & Keith slingbacks in Milan with a crystal ball set into the heel. Earlier this month, Nicole Kidman wore Chanel’s apple-heel slingbacks in New York, where a bright red orb interrupted the back of a cap-toe pump. Goth’s pair sat in the same lane, though Roger Vivier’s version came from a much older house code.
Roger Vivier’s archive traces the jeweled sphere back to 1955, when the maison developed the Boule heel, a form long associated with Marlene Dietrich. The current Marlene line revives that idea in sandal and pump form, keeping the crystal ball low on the heel rather…