For Footwear News Emerging Talent 2017, the fashion team selected 32 of the most promising and progressive names in shoes to know right now. The specifications we looked for were both formalized and guided by editorial instincts, drawing us to a diverse mixture of personalities that fused originality, intuition, verve, business savvy, on-point branding, quality, point of view, personality, cool factor, unwavering style and passion. For our cover story, we went on location and into the private quarters of Soloviere’s Alexia Aubert, Chatelles’ Francois du Chastel, Amélie Pichard, Kalda’s Katrín Alda, Malone Souliers’ Mary Alice Malone and Roy Luwolt, Darmaki’s Sultan Al Darmaki, Axel Arigato’s Max Svärdh and Albin Johansson, and Olgana Paris’ Olgana Djanguirov.
Check out the video above to meet the world’s next big shoe designers. And see below for the full list:
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Olgana Djanguirov for Olgana Paris
Alexia Aubert for Solovière
Katrín Alda for Kalda
Mary Alice Malone and Roy Luwolt for Malone Souliers
Max Svärdh and Albin Johansson for Axel Arigato
François du Chastel for Chatelles
Lily Atherton-Hanbury and Katya Tyumentseva for Le Monde Beryl
Archie Hewlett for Duke & Dexter
Filippo Cirulli and Filippo Fiora for Edhen Milano
Isabelle Guedon and Benjamin Caron for Adieu
Florian Gravier, Arnaud Darut, Walid Nouh and David Brun for Flaneurz
Vittorio Cordella for Joshua Sanders
Giuliano Calza for GCDS
Mari Giudicelli
Marina Grasselli for Coliac
Christelle Kocher for Koche
Luisa Tratzi
Andrea Gomez
Daryn Moore
Barak Uyan
Camila Elphick
Alim Latif for Roker
Astrid Andreassen for A.Andreassen
Antonello Benati for Manebi
Claudia Aragon for Cornetti
