the shoe | margaret howell

I've been a fan of Margaret Howell for a long while now. She's one of the designers whose truly perfected the women-wearing-men's-clothing phenomenon. In the early 70s Howell was tailoring men's shirts to her own designs. She recently released a photo series entitled the shoe . I really like the contrast of the fashion photos with the images of the actual construction of each individual piece of footwear. They work so perfectly together and force you to appreciate the work put into each shoe, pretty darn snazzy.

Also just a little fun fact; Margaret Howell has seven outlets in the UK (its native country) but a whopping ninety in Japan.