High society: shoe designer Terry de Havilland
Terry de Havilland Margaux signature shoe looks like a snake about to strike.Louis Vuitton surya Corner is 5in dominant 40 this year - this is a shoe that he designed in 1973, with the 1940, his father, a shoe that was worn by the stars Marianne Faithfull to Kate Moss who, with obscene curves seems timeless. Insituable. When it opened in 1979, its first standalone store to de Havilland recalls his first memory of Shoes: Girls windmill, platformed creations of his father ruffled his hair as he looked at her ankle strap. It was a picture, not just affecting him his brand.
We meet on the day after his 75th Birthday. Her studio is comfortable and Hackney lined shoe - it smells of leather and cigarette smoke, odors, which correspond to the long-standing reputation as a shoemaker rock'n'roll. He won the title with his hands and his nose day makes shoes for people like David Bowie, The Beatles and Cher, the night of drug-fueled parties that stretched over several weeks. "You can make the shoes that I use for the drugs I track taken," said de Havilland factual. He does not remember after 1966, unfortunately, "because of the acid" and because in the '80s, he had "the world's most expensive nose", but fortunately, his partner of 23 years, Liz can fill in the gaps.
De Havilland began helping his father cut leather, when he was five years old, and in 1960, after a brief stint as an actor (in which he changed its name Higgins) on the way to get home, the family, "Dad maniac with Winklepickers, you see - this huge dangerous "point experimenting with drawings, he sawed the wood takes Winklepickers the toes, but it was his violin. 40s he began corner found in the attic to make him famous.
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One day in May 1970, the factory work, his father was electrocuted and died in his arms. De Havilland was back at work five days later - it should be: Company moved faster than he can imagine. When he speaks of the 70s, he speaks slowly and looked sewing machines. "Three days of blackouts weeks - but we could go," he laughs. Fashion was something different: "No forecast maps, no schmooze cruise seasons .." He opened a shop on the King's Road - a day, a group of punks, rockers fights with passing escorted by police to avoid, made and called a straight line. "So I took a pint of them." Of course.
In 1977, he said, the party was over. Although punk, focuses on the manufacture of shoes with the same last Winklepicker, he does not have his name in 20 years. "I have the sex of it," he sighs. But from glam rock to punk to ravers of the 1980s and "cyber-goths" 90s rolled de Havilland decades, the production of shoes for each subculture, and sometimes the mainstream pop. "If Geri Halliwell met Nelson Mandela," he smiles, "it was our red platforms."
On Christmas Eve 2001, he had a heart attack. "And it was a wake-up call, it was more of my shoes in the museum at the feet of the people we were ripped off everywhere, and we were fed we got a call one day saying ..." Congratulations to the Miu Miu shoes! they copied us. You know, people are expected to pay tribute. "
After a series of bad business decisions and licensing de Havilland is now to take control again. Meanwhile fantastic impressions, screens Mondrianesque and remakes of classics of the 70s, the new Margaux gold snakeskin collection. "This is a shoe that embodies the spirit," Liz said with emotion of her husband. "This is a shoe that has defied the trends." It is still one of his best-seller, a shoe that people in a shoe, that the mother of a client, when she was born was to get married. And they continue to sell, said Liz, partly because it is so convenient, and in part to the combination of classic profile and "bizarre details" is.
"It is difficult to re-break a brand, but with the store, we will try, because without a business where you are? It feels like the right time to come back," said de Havilland. "That 70s depression is back. 50 gray levels, while Bloody We need color we need an antidote to this time, this attitude Yes, it feels good, it feels good ...." Louis Vuitton sofia coppola