LauroRighi

Welcome in the Anita and Andrea's shop!

We are not professional traders, Andrea works on audiovisual productions and I am an architect.
A while ago we found these shoes in our father's storage, we did not know about their existence. They were in a little damp dark place, we opened all the boxes, we chose the better preserved models and we classed them by year. The majority of the models were production prototypes, our father designed them in 70s and 80s and he always kept them .
Andrea and I did not have a good knowledge of footwear for women - ironically we wear almost only sneakers -, but looking at those models we immediately realized that they were different from the models shown in shop windows today.
The materials and finishes of these shoes are better, the shoe tree follows the foot's features making the shoes comfortable and their design is still very fresh!
Our father handled a small production and he often reused lasts of heels , soles and uppers, nevertheless the intent to make something new appears in every model ,not necessarily something better but something new. You can read an attempt even in the worst models, you can read a research. The beauty of these models, as the beauty of many other models belonging to that age, is hidden into trusting in experimentation, into a conviction to improve.

Personally we often buy used clothes to oppose buildup of items and we believe time and use value on things. When we found all these shoes in the storage I thought it would be good to go on their story, to hand out in the world those attempts made out of a designer 30-40 years ago.