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...taste with free time." So he combined the idea of leather shoes with rubber soles and came up with a soft pebble-soled driving moccasin that he labeled J.P. Tod's (the name came out of the Boston phone book). Through an old friend, he managed to get a pair onto Agnelli's feet. Word of mouth grew. He opened a few stores. By 1997 he had added handbags to the brand. Suddenly everyone from Princess Diana to Cher, Hillary Clinton, Jack Nicholson and the King of Spain were wearing J.P. Tod's. In 1999 he dropped...
...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...
...heart of Milan's shopping district, was founded in Rome in 1945 by tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and his entrepreneurial Roman partner, Gaetano Savini. Fonticoli had been trained in the Abruzzo school of tailoring, which blends cutting and stitching techniques borrowed from Savile Row with softer, Mediterranean-inspired lines. The pair's Sartoria Brioni on the Via Barberini was named after the Croatian islands of Brijuni, a glamorous golf and polo getaway favored by Italian aristocrats in the 1920s...
...marching down fashion runways? Last season Miuccia Prada loaded down her waiflike models with rolling suitcases. And at the recent menswear shows in Milan, Valentino outfitted a jet-set couple with their own airport trolley, right, complete with a signature red set (clearly he doesn't intend for this pair to stop at baggage claim). "Luggage is the obvious next step after handbags," says Robert Burke, former fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman. "It makes a lot of money for the designers, and it can stay on the floor for a year, whereas a men's shirt only lasts...
...FUTURE SHOP? I regularly buy and sell watches online because I enjoy nice watches, but I also enjoy variety. When my wife has a loud, uniquely colored cocktail dress and doesn't feel like spending a few hundred dollars on a pair of shoes she'll wear with it once a year, she'll buy a gingerly used pair on eBay. I get a new computer and cell phone every six months to a year...