Rocketman 2019

George Cleverley is very proud to have teamed up with MR. PORTER & ROCKETMAN to produce a very special collection for the launch of a musical fantasy about the uncensored story of Elton John’s breakthrough years, now on general release.

Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Elton John & David Furnish. Rocketman is a British-American musical drama film based on the life of musician Elton John. The film is directed by Dexter Fletcher and written by Lee Hall. It stars Taron Egerton as John, with Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, and Bryce Dallas Howard also starring. The film follows John’s early days as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music up to his eventual musical partnership with Bernie Taupin, and gets its title from John’s 1972 song of the same name.

George Cleverley has partnered with MR. PORTER to produce a very unique Winklepicker boot from the 1950’s. The feature that gives the boot its name is the very sharp and long pointed toe, reminiscent of medieval footwear and approximately the same as the long-pointed toes on some women’s high-fashion shoes and boots in the late 2000s.

The extremely pointed toe was called the winkle picker because in England periwinkle snails, or winkles, are a popular seaside snack which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell carefully, hence the phrase: “to winkle something out”, and based on that, winklepickers became a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.

George Cleverley developed a Chelsea Boot style (elastic-sided with a two-inch, and later as much as two-and-one-half-inch, Cuban heel), notably worn by the Beatles, but although it had a pointed toe was not considered to be a winklepicker.

Rocketman winklepickers are available now from The Royal Arcade store

George Cleverley
13, The Royal Arcade
W1S 4SL
Tel: 0207 493 1058
www.gjcleverley.co.uk