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Thursday, July 12, 2007
You may have noticed I like to throw in the odd picture of shoes here and there in a post...
And I'm not just talking chocolate shoes either...
The Paris METRO is a good place to steal shoe shots...
Or just window shopping late at night...
I used to design shoes and part of the job description
was keeping your eyes open at all times for new trends and details...
A friend heard of a design job on the Bowery,
so I ran to PRATT and took a one-week pattern making course.
This shoe put me on the front of Footwear News :)
I found an Indian embroidered pillowcase with mirrors
and decided it would make a good espadrille...
When the orders piled in, the problem was
where to find more of the same Indian pillowcases :(
Six months later I met someone at the tennis club
who asked me if I'd like to design shoes in Europe!
Pretty soon I was attending shoe shows in London, Paris, Bologna,
and always keeping my eyes open for new trends and details...
I found a vintage man's oxford in London
and designed a "Fred Astair" group around it...
The shoe company had offices in Florence
(with a palazzo on the Arno) and Alicante, Spain,
so it was a constant diet of pasta, paella and shoes...
Tough huh?
I'm still keeping my eyes open for new trends and details,
and I spotted this sign in a Marais shoe shop last trip for
"BRONX" shoes Who'da thunk it?
Not shoes, but still Paris feet, at the 2006 art show in
the Jardins du Luxembourg...
And I'm not just talking chocolate shoes either...
The Paris METRO is a good place to steal shoe shots...
Or just window shopping late at night...
I used to design shoes and part of the job description was keeping your eyes open at all times for new trends and details...
A friend heard of a design job on the Bowery,
so I ran to PRATT and took a one-week pattern making course.
This shoe put me on the front of Footwear News :)
I found an Indian embroidered pillowcase with mirrors
and decided it would make a good espadrille...
When the orders piled in, the problem was
where to find more of the same Indian pillowcases :(
Six months later I met someone at the tennis club who asked me if I'd like to design shoes in Europe!
Pretty soon I was attending shoe shows in London, Paris, Bologna,
and always keeping my eyes open for new trends and details...
I found a vintage man's oxford in London
and designed a "Fred Astair" group around it...
The shoe company had offices in Florence (with a palazzo on the Arno) and Alicante, Spain,
so it was a constant diet of pasta, paella and shoes...
Tough huh?
I'm still keeping my eyes open for new trends and details, and I spotted this sign in a Marais shoe shop last trip for
"BRONX" shoes Who'da thunk it?
Not shoes, but still Paris feet, at the 2006 art show inthe Jardins du Luxembourg...
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