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...The designer has also called in a favour from bespoke shoemaker George Cleverley, which has produced a black calf-leather version of its classic Chelsea shoe (£1,700)....
...Manolo Blahnik is another: soon to be 81, the master shoemaker is still king of the dancing heel....
...From this came a succession of jumpsuits, apron-front dresses and chore coats cut from humble cotton gabardine and drill, made to look as if they’d been thrown in the wash with a pot of dye by members of...
...I still try to return most years, and I’d like to say that this makes me an expert; but Tokyo is constantly evolving. There are new restaurants, new stores, new trends....
...“Even Gen Z, who were all about T-shirts with logos and sneakers, are getting more sophisticated,” adds D’Arpizio....
...Meanwhile he continues to be the runway shoemaker of choice for all kinds of designers, from Julie de Libran to Grace Wales Bonner....
...Choo’s meteoric rise from cobbler to shoemaker to Diana, Princess of Wales, reads a lot like a fashion fairytale: born into a family of shoemakers in the Malaysian state of Penang, he learnt his craft from...
...Gobbetti hired him straight out of Fashion East, Lulu Kennedy’s incubator for young talent, before he’d had a chance to put on his first full fashion show....
...“If you want to go out, we’d encourage you to go for a suit that makes you look and feel sexy,” says Sebag-Montefiore....
...We only had five days in this enchanting world, with its dark woods, fairytale cabin and friendly old shoemaker....
...They also suit the bagginess of today’s trouser silhouettes: pair voluminous pants by YMC with a dainty Gucci loafer and you’d look like you might topple over....
...I appeal for support here to Thomas Traherne, born in 1636, the son of a village shoemaker near Hereford and eventually a poet and clergyman....
...When Ivan Khudiakov died in 1876 in a hospital ward for the mentally insane, he had no idea that the Russian stories he’d gathered and printed 16 years earlier would one day become famous....
...It rained overnight in the Val d’Arno....
...(WSJ) Blistering Birkenstocks CVC Capital Partners’ Alexander Dibelius thought he’d stumbled upon the perfect deal — pocketing German shoemaker Birkenstock for $3.5bn....
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...Now they are trying to get butchers, shoemakers and ice-cream salesmen to stand up and fight.”...
...coming up with new business models,” says Piotr Badowski, chief executive and majority owner of Nanovo, which produces the software for smart display screens for retailers such as CCC, Poland’s biggest shoemaker...
...When I got thinking about what I could say to him, I noticed I’d already thought plenty about shoes in my work, without explicitly realising it. Shoes are the most loaded item of clothing that we have....
...Michael Kors bought shoemaker Jimmy Choo and Versace, changing its name to Capri Holdings to reflect its new portfolio approach....
...Having spent a career in tailoring, with additional creative director roles at British sportswear brand Sunspel (where she learnt all about jersey) and the Hermès-owned heritage shoemaker John Lobb (where...
...Birkenstock had made several custom pairs for McDormand, in various hues, and was unsure if she’d wear them until the event began and its website exploded....
...They met instead Herr Wilhelm Voigt, an ex-convict, an ex-shoemaker, a nobody, who possessed nothing more than a confident manner . . . and a very nice uniform....
...Asked about his ambitions today, he says that if he weren’t in fashion, he’d be making ceramics....
...But in Italy in the early 1990s she discovered brilliant shoemakers who were unfazed by her demanding and startlingly original designs....
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