QVC FFANY Shoes on Sale highlights…Tory Burch

October 16th, 2008

QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale” benefited the eight leading breast cancer research centers across the US and is expected to raise over $3 million by the end of October 2008. The gala, held at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria, raised awareness as shoe-industry insiders raised their glasses to toast the evening’s honorees and guests.
Other “non-shoe” celebrity attendees included Dennis Basso; Fabiola Beracasa; Linda Dano; Michael Fink; Stacy London; Reba McEntire; Richie Rich; Lisa Robertson, QVC program host and Opera singer Ruth Ann Swenson.

Do you have what it takes to be a shoe designer?

October 21st, 2008

What do Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, and Giuseppe Zanotti have in common? They are all shoe designers who have elevated their craft of shoe making to a mesmerizing art form. Think you have what it takes to design a pair of shoes?

Get your creative juices flowing and your feet wet, so to speak, at International Shoemaking Design, which offers an intensive 2-day workshop for serious-minded footwear designers to hone your shoemaking skills, learn the anatomy of the foot and construction of a shoe. Upon completion, you’ll have made your very own mule, pump, sandal or boot style. In YOUR size, of course.

Based outside of Cleveland in Rocky River, Ohio, owner Sissy Puccio Aversa, a London-trained shoe designer/maker and certified Pedorthist, will privately walk you through an intensive workshop on what it takes to actually build a pair of shoes.

Word is, Aversa is working on her own line, where she will manufacture her collection right here in the United States. Stay tuned.