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...December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand Tod's. His job? To put a fresh, modern spin on the Tod's signatures and up the ante with ready-to-wear. For fall, Lam has seized the brand's signature driving shoe and revamped it in a sleeker design in stylish jewel-tone satins. Coinciding with Lam's first season in charge is the brand's initial foray into the realm of celebrity spokesmodels. Sienna Miller appears in fall advertisements...
Since Hermann's arrival, there have been more handbags and other creative successes: a chunky-heeled shoe, a cropped pant, a much copied tunic. They are all inventions of Stefano Pilati, an Italian designer whom Hermann inherited as a partner and immediately embraced...
...Shoe bomber Richard Reid underwent a similar evolution and was selected for his failed mission in December 2001 on the assumption that his British citizenship and clandestine conversion to radical Islam would protect him from suspicion ahead of his attack. Jamaican-born convert Lindsey Germaine was similarly central to the July 2005 London attacks. Even German officials have had previous experience with radical converts: in 2003, France arrested Christian Ganczarski - a German national who has boasted his ties with top al-Qaeda leaders, and was implicated in the 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia - after Germany was forced...
...News of the raid, a story that rivaled Guatemala's upcoming presidential election for headlines, was especially alarming for women like Ana Escobar, a Guatemalan, and Ann Roth, an American. Last spring, armed gunmen held up Escobar in the storage room of her Guatemala City shoe store while two female accomplices stole her 6-month-old daughter Esther. Escobar, 26, is convinced the baby was put up for illegal adoption, and she came to Antigua to see if Esther was one of the infants found at Casa Quivira. "We are not animals to be bought and sold," she says, clutching...
Bally Since 1851 (Skira) Editor Moreno Gentili tells the story of Swiss shoemaker Bally, one of the first global luxury brands. More than 100 photographs show the evolution of shoe models from the mid--19th century to the early 1960s...