FERRAGAMO Salvatore (Shoe designer)

This shoe, which marries glamour with imagination, is made of golden kid leather. Salvatore Ferragamo was a shoemaker of great originality whose choice of materials made him unique. When leather was in short supply during the Second World War, he experimented with cellophane for the body of his shoes. For soles he revived the use of cork and wood. Amongst his other cobbling innovations were wedge heels, platform soles and the steel shaft that stabilizes spike heels. Ferragamo's heyday was after the war, when Italian fashion was recovering and film production was booming. Film stars, rich tourists and socialites such as the Duchess of Windsor flocked to his Florence shop. He also earned himself the sobriquet "shoemaker to the stars" by decorating the feet of two Hollywood generations, stretching from Gloria Swanson in the 1920s to Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s. 

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