Rising Solo

NICOLA ROBERTS has collaborated with rising shoe designer Atalanta Weller to create the shoe she will wear as she launches her solo career – and the designer revealed the Girls Aloud star was very involved in the process.

“A collaboration is like a good conversation,”Weller told VogueUK. “Nicola came to my studio a couple of times and I went to hers; we initially chatted about her music, the forthcoming album and how this related to her vision for the shoes.”  ”I think we are an unlikely pairing which is why I was intrigued when Nicola approached me about working together,” Weller – whose own collections have a more utilitarian feel – added. “I think that she has incredible style and she’s extremely distinctive, luxurious and original in the way she wears clothes. I have not collaborated like this before and the fact that it was for the launch of Nicola’s solo music career meant we could be quite experimental. Everything was new and fresh.”

See the shoes and the latest on Nicola’s solo career here.