Starting today and throughout this month and next, we will be exploring “the Inquiring Minds” segment of my posts. With New York fashion week on the horizon, I thought that it might be interesting to focus on a new wave of designers who cater to the client who demands “handmade” rather than machine produced. Think haute couture but not only when it refers to women’s apparel…. Maybe think bespoke!
Today is all about a gentleman who has perfected the art and the craft of custom made and handmade men’s shoes. The shoes are extraordinary and the genius and the talents behind the product are equally impressive. Keep in mind, we had a bit but not much of a language barrier, but I could not resist printing his unedited responses.
His shoes “are his canvas.”
*-What is the most treasured possession in your wardrobe?
Many are almost all, because 'I have bought everything on wearing it not only for a single occasion, I like my look and shape to match how I feel and therefore' each garment from jeans to shirts to ties has its value
*-What is your bliss?
my happiness' and 'when I smile and be really happy with the other, to help people and create through my ability' to make the shoes to provide jobs for many people to create a future
*-What is your guilty secret?
I have no secret I like the truth 'and justice what leads me to have no secrets
*-Where is your ideal home?
-My ideal home and 'definitely located on a desert island in the sea, Polynesia or the Caribbean, I love them' cause they give me a sense of freedom 'amazing, is not it?
*-If you could not be a designer/retailer/etc:, what would you be?
if I did what I do, that 'make handmade shoes to measure, certainly something inarente play drums to music that I like very much and I play well, maybe an architect, I do not know it would have been something that allowed me to express myself and maybe help is always someone
*-What do you wear to bed?
pajama wearing a simple
*-What if any, book are you reading now or last read?
The books I love them so much, especially those of imagination, what I like to read 'that tells the truth' of things happened, I like reading about science, technology, things that are true short stories created by the imagination does not bore me or as I said before like the truth '
*-What’s your advice to the “newcomer?”
always be yourself do not be afraid to ask to be free to express themselves and assert their capacity 'do not forget that we are people and as such we must respect each other, there are no classes of the soul and the intellect that we are all equal only walks of life are different
*-Who or what is your inspiration/style icon?
for me,many can be a style icon, there's' someone in particular many are unique in their own way, take Armani, YSL Tom Ford each with its own character, what am I am inspired, to be honest I do not know in such ideas come to me when I shower, where I find my moment to relax, with the pink background or Ploidy David Bowie Stevie Wonder, or who are with me
*-Who is your favorite designer?
Myfavorite designer, good question! I can say Tom Ford, Philippe Stark as others I do not appreciate or just a designer but I admire them all, those who were able to leave earlier, some later in their signature fashion as in everyday life, are all to be taken into account for fashion and 'over, some still manage to rework their style and not to create new ones. create things that can not be worn so much that is ugly or ridiculous or without an answer
*-In 3 words or less, describe the current state of fashion.
non'èall'icremento
*-If you won a $200,000,000 power ball, what is the first thing you would buy or do?
The first thing is' giving away a trip to my father and my mother for the South Africa who have always wanted to see those places
*-If you could invite up to 4 people for dinner, who would they be…dead or alive?
decisaente alive. + i have something already dead by now we know 'what to say and to convey to others
*-What is your favorite movie and/or movie star?
my favorite movie 'Schindler's List, as an actor Al Pacino or Robert De Niro
*-What is the one thing you would change about yourself?
-a little character, are very sociable and explicit, but I say what I think too easily and I do not even speak out
*-Whose opinion do you value most?
I hold a lot into consideration the opinion of my mother and my girlfriend are the only ones who know me very well and can understand me
*-What store or which designer do you most like to shop in or wear ?
I like to visit the shops are those that offer a good overview of the product and have a beautiful showcase that reflects the taste and style of the store,
*-What’s your take on magazines, books versus the internet?
I believe that magazines are the basic pillars of communication. and 'a beautiful thing to do especially the collection of fashion magazines, I think that the magazines will never die, I prefer, but the Internet is a great means of communication to speed up the contents of which are between the words written in the papers, say that newspapers are a bit all over the base
*-Do you have a dream collaborator?
My ideal partner should be excited about what 'that's full of ideas and inspiration and he likes to do things the manual is how to make a shoe made entirely by hand to combine both thought and art with this object, in short, that has that irrepressible desire to say something to the world and those who buy and watch my shoe as I do
*-If you could pick anyone as your customer, who would you select and why?
Ideally my client ANDY WARHOL because 'he created a style of expression would be able to see what I do with the shoes, which for me are the canvas where I express myself, and for me the legendary painter Caravaggio, who, in my opinion, painted so AMAZING, could appreciate the finishing of my shoes and shades of colors that mix.
and finally my client for excellence and 'Salvador Dali, well,! would be the best you could ask a genie that mixed ability 'pictorial imagination, skill' of expression, and then he was always out of fashion
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