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Premiata’s Lessons of Styleby Stefano Guerrini

Graziano Mazza, creative director of PREMIATA, has reserved unique, special interiors for his clients, modern luxury globetrotters. Milan is the location chosen, where the brand’s philosophy will have freedom of expression. A space thought up as a collection, in perfect harmony with the brand and where tradition and cutting-edge details link perfectly. Via Della Spiga 1 is the address in the heart of Milan’s fashion shopping zone, selected as the perfect frame for an international brand like PREMIATA.

The opening in Milan last September, will be followed by openings in the capital cities dear to Graziano Mazza - Paris and Tokyo. The boutique is the place to discover all the PREMIATA collections, alongside the famous shoes there will be space for the new PREMIATA men’s wardrobe, in which past and future, tradition and avant-gard come together and adjust the proportion of the contemporary male figure, for clothes reserved to a sophisticated and eclectic man who had not yet abandoned his wish to dress well and look cool in the third millennium!

There’s HOPE for MENby Stefano Guerrini

She is the daughter of a Naval Captain, who quelled a rebellion in the Maldives in 1959, and a fashion journalist who worked for the Sunday Times, so fashion and a certain passion for adventure and exotic places have always been a part of her heritage, it’s not a surprise that CNN recently made a lifestyle and work documentary on Emma Hope, following her to South Africa, learning to play polo, surfing and making beaded bags with Monkey Biz, meeting their beaders in their workshop in the township of Khayelitsha, which supports an aids wellness clinic in the centre of Cape Town.

Her shoes are simply the coolest around. She has designed for Paul Smith, Anna Sui and Mulberry, now she has a line under her name, three shops in London, in Sloane Square, Westbourne Grove and Islington, and her accessories are in over 150 stores worldwide including Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Harrods. All of her shoes are made in small, family owned, factories in Tuscany, where they are specialists in the finest hand crafted shoe making techniques.

Emma designed the shoes for Kiera Knightly and Rosamund Pike for the award winning film “Pride and Prejudice”, the Gifford's Circus commissioned her to design some ‘Moulin Rouge’ boots for the trapeze artists and chorus girls for their tour and she has won five Design Council Awards, the Martini Style Award, the Harpers & Queen Design Award and the Clothes Show TV and D.T.I. accessories award. The designer has recently launched a new collection of sneaker's for men. The sneakers have an old school feeling and are made in ponyskin, fat metallic nappa, satin, velvets or python and are calf lined. Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard, Kevin Spacey and singer Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream are some of the famous names who wear the "joe" sneakers.

“Hope for men” fall-winter 2007/08 sneakers collection includes Magic baskets, Strap baskets (with Velcro straps) and a new style called Tennis sneaker. There are also velvet ankle boot and more classical shapes, reinvented in a modern way.

N.D.C.by Stefano Guerrini

N.d.c. is a belgian footwear brand founded by Arnaud Zannier ed Enrique Corbi, both with a background story of ten years in the shoe-business. Trendsetters and luxury lovers will adore the new autumn-winter collection, whose main goal is to continue fighting the rising tide of conformity.

For the next season the brand has continued their infamous washed leather brogues, creating new finishings and shades for the shoe. N.d.c. has experimented with a new blunted toe in both their classic brogue style as well as 60’s chelsea boots. Chunky industrial inspired styles feature in soft khaki and burgundy, reflecting the key hues of autumnal life. I simply love their slip ons, what about you?

ALBERTO GUARDIANIby: Stephane Marquet

Alberto Guardiani’s new showroom at 29 Corso Venezia in Milan is now open. But if you can't go to Milan ... nobody's perfect ;-) you have no excuses not to go to their official site and have a look at their fantastic new collection ...

+ Alberto Guardiani

Big Boots For Real Men

Guys, put your boots on. This season len's footwear is following its feemale counterpart. New boots go all the way to the knee? Those biker boots are lade from roughed-up leather and are fasten with buckles. You can find them in Patrick Cox boutique in Paris.

Want Some Shoes ?

Shoe :: an outer covering for the human foot typically having a thick or stiff sole with an attached heel and an upper part of lighter material (as leather)

And when you count on shoe to be more than just a shoe? Go for a Schmoove... We have foud them here in Paris but you should be able to get them in your city.

Go to the second part of the post to see more of Brice and Schmoove... Photography by Fred Goudon

Warm & Fynctional

Zegna's ankle boots will keep you dry and cozy, while looking great.

Geox Breathes®

Rubber shoes, introduced more than 50 years ago, represented a technological achievement that changed the life of millions of people on the planet - waterproof footwear that kept people's feet dry and warm, especially in winter. However, the downside was the lack of feet perspiration, not a minor detail considering that the third highest concentration of sweating glands is right on the feet soles. Geox addressed this problem with a simple yet revolutionary patented system. See the site for more details.

Geox Store in NYC

Adidas // Scribble Style

Photo Source: Man.Style.com

Are you looking for the way to express your artistic side and wear original shoes... Well with new Adidas white series, soled with a box of multicolored markers.

Spirit By Osiris

Yellow is one of the in colors this summer. So why not put it on a great skateboarder's shoes by Osiris.