Saturday, August 20, 2011

Spotlight ON..Rupert Sanderson!!

Currently I am in love with...
Rupert Sanderson...
Born in 1966 in Penang, Malaysia (coincidently the same Malaysian island Jimmy Choo is from). The son of a British Army officer, Rupert Sanderson lived the typically peripatetic life of an army child. After graduating from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University, he worked in advertising in London before enrolling on the shoe making course at the world recognised Cordwainers College in East London, joining a long lineage of stellar shoemakers such as Jimmy Choo.
During the summer holiday of the two-year course, he rode a motorbike to Italy to visit shoe factories, tanneries and last makers, meeting artisans and learning as much as possible about the trade. Rupert Sanderson then worked in Italy firstly for Sergio Rossi,and latterly Bruno Magli.

Complementing his obsessive passion for the Italian craft of shoe making is a bit of quintessential British flair: every pair of Rupert Sanderson shoes is named after an English daffodil....

Info courtesy Wikipedia.










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