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Fanfair
Shoe Business
Fanfair
Shoe Business
Shoe Business
In ancient Greece, courtesans wore sandals whose soles left the imprint "Follow me. " As Salvatore Ferragamo: The Art of the Shoe, a new book (Rizzoli) and exhibition (L.A. County Museum), makes clear, the message sent by the master cobbler s wares was equally alluring. Ferragamo fashioned fantasy shoes from eighteen-karat gold and tree bark, commemorated the opening of King Tut's tomb with an inverted-pyramid heel, invented the wedge, and sold Garbo seventy pairs in a day. "I am very happy, Ferragamo wrote, "to have awakened in women the desire for good shoes. " —AMY FINE COLLINS
AMY FINE COLLINS
