Do you know of Maloles history ? Part 2

In 2005, I introduced a winter model, with a warm fabric and I tightened the bow closing the visible gathers.

 

It was in 2007 that I replaced the link by a ribbon. It was all a process of evolving towards a more delicate shoe, to reveal the beauty of flat shoes.

I hope you liked these back-to-basics. From now on, every week, I will introduce you to a ZOE model from my collection.

Do you know of Maloles history ?

Today you all know of my famous model, the ZOE. But when I created it in 2003, it was a little bit different than what it is today…

In 2003, I had the idea of turning backwards a ballet shoe and leaving the gathers visible, initially placed under the sole, that I decided to close with a delicate bow.

 

 

The Zoés were already assembled from a single hand-stitched leather piece, using an artisanshoemaking practice.

But, with time, I upgraded to more sophisticated leathers, like the snake one in 2005.

Parisian Spot

What a better day than a Bank Holiday to try something new?

I love to go to Germain restaurant, the food is delicious but I especially go there for the design. The Xavier Veilhan statue is just amazing !

 

 

Germain - 25 rue de Buci - 75006 Paris

Open from 8am til 2am, but I prefer to go for dinner 

Multi-talented Florence Broadhurst mixes her travels in wallpapers

A multi-talented legend, Florence Broadhurst expressed her creativity through various mediums : she was successively singer, teacher, designer, businesswoman, banjolele player and got implied in several causes. She was a foundation member of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales and a member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia, was a teacher of printmaking and sculpture at the National Art School and was also involved in a variety of charitable activities.

Solar -wallpaper by Florence Broadhurst

Born in 1899, Broadhurst's first career was as a performer. Her considerable singing talent took her to India, South-East Asia and China in the early 1920s. She founded an arts academy in Shanghai in 1926 and later moved to London, where she married and reinvented herself as Madame Pellier, running a fashion atelier on Bond Street.

Her time in Asia "made a huge sensory impression on her"; inspiration for the bamboo, peacocks, butterflies and water birds that featured in her figurative designs.

She will be remembered as the larger-than-life socialite who could be found mixing with high society when she wasn't at her Paddington factory. With her generous auburn or pink bouffant, outre fashion sense and audacious personality, she was hard to miss. Her murder in 1977 is still a mystery and increased all the more her fame.

Love Tom Binns - Putting the fun back in jewelry

Louise Bourgeois - Untitled