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...Salvatore Ferragamo nappa leather F-Heel shoes, £625....
...Behind the counter of F.lli Gondola, a coffee bar and pastry shop in Frattamaggiore, owner Salvatore Gondola keeps a picture of Italian footballer Lorenzo Insigne....
...This season, the F-Heel has been reinterpreted by Andrew. His version shares the original’s vanishing heel, but is not strictly a wedge....
...Ferragamo’s business is shoes, and the standouts here were a reinterpretation of Salvatore’s 1947 F-wedge, which was moulded into a stiletto heel, and a new Gancini driving shoe for men....
...“It is a constant war machine,” he says, sitting in his office, where a vast painting of John F Kennedy by the Italian artist Sergio Lombardo hangs over his desk....
...joining Station F are run by women....
...The shoes, with giant treads and sculptural bronze heels in the house’s classic “F” shape, were strong. As a trinity of talent, it came together....
...Ferragamo is next door, displaying its three main ranges, Salvatore, Gancino and F-80. Graff has new premises almost opposite, having first opened near Harrods in 2002....
...As I try to convey the sensation of luxuriousness produced by being on the island of Porquerolles off-season, I’m strongly tempted to cheat and steal F Scott Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the Côte d’Azur...
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