The Work
Most pieces are made to order, to the wearer's own measurement. A few are ready to be acquired. Each design exists in a fixed, limited number, made once and never again. Nothing is held in reserve, and nothing is reissued.
The Foundations
A house known by its refusals. Form is settled before ornament, and the ornament is drawn from the form rather than laid over it. The pieces are made to be seen, and made for the woman who decided how she would be seen long before the shoes. This is what the house holds to, set down in full.
The Atelier
Every pair is made in Milan, entirely by hand, over more than thirty hours. The stones are natural, cut and set one at a time; the leather cut and closed by hand; the embroidery worked thread by thread. Some pieces demand tools that do not exist, and so the tools are built first. Few can be made this way, and so few are.