A homage to the passing of time
With the Rapiécé-Reprisé 2024 collection, Olga Berluti revisits the story of the shoes and clothes that men wear. In a rare interview in 2007, she stated, “I do not dress the foot, I dress the man” and, as a fourth-generation shoemaker – her Italian grandfather Alessandro having established the brand in 1895 – she knows whereof she speaks.
In 2005 Olga Berluti restored to life a tradition male aristocrats in the early 1800s had as a mark of affiliation, namely the finely executed repairs to their garments which crucially, like the Japanese are of kintsugi, were visible to the observer. At the time, she described the shoes as “Very comfortable models, marked by the passage of time, they pay homage to those clothes we’ve had all our lives that we can’t bring ourselves to throw away.”
Bespoke Berluti footwear was favoured by legends such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Pablo Picasso and, perhaps most famously, Andy Warhol, whom Olga met as a teenager in 1962.
The new Berluti Rapiécé-Repricé collection is available in five emblematic Berluti styles. Footwear and accessories come in versions with…
