Carpe Diem, Lmaltieri, Linea, etc.

[doldrums]

a bit of this guy mixed in

[thedreambelow]

...?

[Faust]

m_moria article on sz-mag.com

[Ilie]

Why one of the most powerful artist of the times is making shoes is beyond me.

[Faust]

Why one engages in hyperbole is beyond me.

[Ilie]

My point exactly.

[Icarium]

There is something both zen and surreal about the above exchange. Like two masters dueling each other in their minds and not making a move.

Is there a winner? Is there a loser? Or are those binary classifications too limited to express what transpired here...

[crouka]

maybe that stockist had been too busy and had seen too many things to remember a chronology.

PH is a shoemaker. though he had sold bags and print t's before he started the clothing line, adopting some directional opinions of someone else.

it's true that altieri wanted to try on a PH jacket a retail emperor happened to be wearing, and went home in it. but that was years after the advent of CD washed leather shirt.

[Faust]

maybe that stockist had been too busy and had seen too many things to remember a chronology.

PH is a shoemaker. though he had sold bags and print t's before he started the clothing line, adopting some directional opinions of Elena Dawson.

it's true that altieri wanted to try on a PH jacket a retail emperor happened to be wearing, and went home in it. but that was years after the advent of CD washed leather shirt.

Fixed

[snafu]

^^^ nice

[crouka]

Fixed

could be right in a way, but I wouldn't say it that way as long as she was working under the name of PH.
I meant his business partner (and yet working independently of PH) he had known before he got to know her.

to be fair, in the early 00's, he made it public that she was in charge of the clothing line.

anyway it was great footwear and a bit of bags and t's that he was making when altieri was calling the leather shirts maximum expression of carpe diem.

[Faust]

Oh, I wasn't trying to belittle Mr. Harnden's achievements. The man has created a singular world and that's good enough for me.

[arby2001]

Wouldn't you say memoria feels more like old-world gentleman's shoes more than anything else? I've only handled a few pieces but the leather was very good, not distressed. The construction was incredible (I don't know what welt he used exactly, norwegian or norvegese or whatever, but I know it when I see it). As for the shape, it was definitely a bit strange at first sight, less "modern" and streamlined in a sense.

To me it seems the man is trying to bridge the gap between traditional italian shoemaking and carpe diem.

[crouka]

Oh, I wasn't trying to belittle Mr. Harnden's achievements. The man has created a singular world and that's good enough for me.

my post was just a supplement to what I had written previously, since it was "fixed".



arby it seemed to me altieri is a wanderer who is trying to see traditions through concerns of our time and describe the future with the traditional eyes.

[lowrey]

Wouldn't you say memoria feels more like old-world gentleman's shoes more than anything else? I've only handled a few pieces but the leather was very good, not distressed. The construction was incredible (I don't know what welt he used exactly, norwegian or norvegese or whatever, but I know it when I see it). As for the shape, it was definitely a bit strange at first sight, less "modern" and streamlined in a sense.

To me it seems the man is trying to bridge the gap between traditional italian shoemaking and carpe diem.

I would say more traditional in terms of shape, welt and the leather/finish (no distressing). But then there are small things that make them unusual, like using stamped areas of the leather, the rough laces that form a circle (there are no ends), and the soles which are made of very thick and grainy leather (elephant etc?)

I'm not sure what the influence with concept was, but I think the end result is quite beautiful despite being quite different than what we are used to seeing with the recent works. Then again, the Avantindietro projects were the ones that took a step towards something more out of the ordinary; Carpe Diem footwear was often if not always based on more classic shapes