Word: andreas
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...Andrea Silbert ’86, a former Leverett House resident who co-founded a center that assists female entrepreneurs, said she still remembered “stumbling down the Kirkland stairs”—drawing laughter from the student audience...
...very surprised if Andrea Silbert did not run for higher office whatever happens in September,” said Brigit M. Helgen ’08, the College Democrats campaign director and organizer of the debate...
...Della Valle. (Diego's eldest son Emanuele also works for the company, as do two cousins.) But you won't see Diego hand-stitching the driving shoes himself. Many of the families in his factory have been with the company for several generations, at least since Dorino, Diego and Andrea's father, set up shop in Casette d'Ete in the 1940s and later began manufacturing shoes for private-label department-store brands in addition to designers like Calvin Klein and Azzedine Alaa. Dorino's father Filippo was a local cobbler whose workbench still sits in a corner...
...This is really the heart of the company, these people," says Andrea. "Without them, without their expertise and the soul they put into this craftsmanship, we would not have a product." Indeed, most Tod's shoes require 120 different stages of assemblage, and each pair is made by hand and cut from a single hide so that the shoe's grain is consistent. The shoemaking process begins inside the patternmaking room?which Andrea refers to as the intelligence center?where a dozen engineers hunch over computer screens, carefully devising the patterns for each shoe?some entail as many...
...addition to overseeing production in the factory, Andrea is president of the Fiorentina team (he designed the uniforms). He often finds himself applying his soccer management style to the workers in the company?which is to say, never be too confident when things are going well or too demoralized when they're not. That cautiousness at home, combined with Diego's easygoing joviality abroad, has made the brand as popular with Hollywood A listers as it is with Greenwich, Conn., housewives...