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...The Scuderia Ferrari F1 team’s two young drivers, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, have been enlisted as the collection’s campaign stars....
...“I was looking around some of the old shoemakers – Crockett & Jones, Church’s – and was really taken with the last room with all the wooden lasts inscribed with names like Prince Charles and Samuel L Jackson...
...The shoemaker is housed in an old church on the south side of the Arno, and has a shop, workshop, school and tailoring space within the three floors....
...A recent “find” is Yohei Fukuda, a remarkable Japanese shoemaker in Tokyo who trained in Northampton with some of the world’s finest cordwainers....
...“Ethiopia has the smallest manufacturing share of any of the African countries we look at,” says Charles Robertson, chief economist at Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank with a focus on...
...Slowly demand for formal leather footwear waned and shoemakers closed or were subsumed. Joseph Cheaney & Sons was just one....
...His son Charles-Emile Hermès added saddles to the inventory in 1880....
...Artisan shoemakers, wigmakers and jewellers all get the Selby treatment here....
...The shoemakers Clarks of Street, Somerset, founded in 1825, were, and remain, a privately owned family company. And a giant in the fragmented British shoemaking industry....
...JM Weston – the French shoemaker that adopted a British name more than a century ago – still makes its shoes mainly by hand in Limoges, and owns a tannery in the country....
...Charles Tyrwhitt, known for its serious office wear and classic casual clothes, has brought out chinos in shocking pink and bright red....
...Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, Viking, RRP£30 Dickens has a place in the heart of the nation....
...“It is a phoney war,” says Charles Ind, managing partner at Bowmark Capital. “Last year, nobody wanted to buy and nobody wanted to sell....
...While most East Coast shoemakers now have factories abroad, “the remaining shoe brands have Japan to thank for keeping them alive”....
...She arrived in Spain 13 years ago, working at first for the Charles Jourdan label and then launching her own range in 2001. When I was 13 I decided I wanted to be a famous designer....
...To be specific, it’s a boot, and along with another distinctly modish style, is available to order from French shoemakers JM Weston....
...They’re similar to what you might find at Thomas Pink or Charles Tyrwhitt “but, unlike those brands, you won’t see Lugo on everyone else”, says client Joseph Angelo, who has eight Lugo shirts....
...Partner Charles Holland says: “The Loos argument is very interesting. As I understand it, he was saying that ornamentation was a waste of labour, effort and craft....
...Olga Berluti, the bespoke shoemaker who offers a range of shades and colours by bleaching and polishing leather, explains the trend in Britain for pink and other lighter shades on the weather....
...Just look, for instance, at the sniping that her fellow organic crusader and businessman Prince Charles attracts every time he dares to hop on an aircraft....
...But Observer cannot help feeling sorry for the boy from Savoy, who told Paris Match that if he "hadn't been the son of a shoemaker" he "wouldn't have a housing problem"....
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