Category: Shoes

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Adidas’ Stan Smith, the Iconic Sneaker

Its creation began in 1963 in the factories of Landersheim in France, intended to be sold the following year under the eponymous brand of its designer. The famous Adidas shoe presented a number of new innovations: the leather aerated by three rows of holes, characteristic of the brand’s DNA, is sewn into the sole for...

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Louis Vuitton Leather Dresses the Shoes Precollection Spring-Summer 2014

For city dweller women, elegant stilettos stand alongside wedge heels or relaxed flats sandales while ostrich feathers compete with python, velvety suede leather, and glazed calf leather. Whichever pair selected, these shoes are enhanced by discreet features like golden plaques or hand-tied bow. As for the travelling dandies, retro touches mingle with patinated leather boots...

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The Chelsea Boot by J.M. Weston

At J.M Weston, history isn’t erased, it’s rewritten. In operation starting in the post-war period, the brand mixes a traditional shoemaking savoir-faire with Weston quality to bring the elegance of the shoe up a notch with a touch of Italian style. But the elegance is definitively French. It’s nothing but a search for balance, and...

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Tod’s Presents its JP Tod’s Sartorial Collection

These JP Tod’s Sartorial shoes are available in 5 styles: oxfords in ornate and smooth leather, buckled derbies, boots, and moccasins. What sets this line apart is that it’s fatte a mano. Indeed, the art of the shoe is brought to new heights with this project. An exclusive, old-style working of patina on different skins leads...

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Louis Vuitton’s laced boots

Named director of ready-to-wear men’s for Louis Vuitton in 2011, globe trotter Kim Jones details the technical specifications for the hiking shoe in a new piece that keeps the same look. The key style in their runway, Kim Jones is keeping with the theme of travel and explorers, and in doing so following in the...

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The Suede Sapphire, a Puma Classic Revisited

Dubbed the Suede Sapphire, the Puma sneaker has been able to transcend fashions and eras. Sold for the first time in 1968, they were first in vogue with the New York City Breakers and the Rock Stead Crew, approved for their comfort and nonchalant look. Both classic and trendy, the sneaker spread through the emerging...

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Tod’s Moccasins Revamped

The timeless pebbled moccasin is getting a makeover without striking a false note. This piece established itself as a must-have chic luxury basic in the 70s. Artisanally fabricated and assembled in Italy, it is there as well that it’s now getting a new look. More modern and undeniably more vibrant. Leopard foal, velvet-veal, animal or...

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Sergio Rossi’s Super Aesthetic Shoes

By exploring its inspirational roots in decorative arts of the 60s, the label is revisiting its history to reinvent itself by interpreting the codes that gave it its renown in a contemporary way: refinement, a pointed sense of detail, and artisanal tradition. In place of a new creative director, Sergio Rossi has appointed Angelo Riggeri...