High Heel — Blog — Stefano Casarola

Sophia Webster was born in 1985 in South Africa, but now London is her new home. She graduated at Cordwainers College and The Royal College of Art. After working as Assistant Designer to Nicholas Kirkwood, she founded her eponymous label in 2012 and she debuted her first collection for Spring/Summer 2013. In 2016 she won the BFC Vogue Fashion Fund, becoming the first female shoe designer in history to receive this prestigious prize. Always in 2016, her first flagship retail store was opened in Mount Street, Mayfair, London. Her designs are all hand-drawn and conceptualised within the company headquarters in East London. She has become renowned for combining feminine design with a sophisticated approach. She doesn’t worry too much about what her competitors are doing, but she trusts her own vision trying to find a balance between creativity and commerce. She prefers high heel, colorful and decorative shoes but in her collections she also presents flats and sneakers for a more casual style.

All the photos taken from sophiawebster.com.

Behind the name "Oscar Tiye" hides a really famale woman: the designer Amina Muaddi. In 2013, when she started her project, she decided the name after having seen a jewel that the pharaoh gave to the Queen Tiye of ancient Egypt as a wedding gift. Then Oscar is a combination of the names of her grandparents. The logo, which is put on every sole, is a beetle with open wings, a sacred good-luck symbol in the Middle Est.
Amina has Jordanian-Romanian roots. Her base is in Milan, where she studied Fashion Communication at the European Institute of Design. Her collections are totally made in Italy, in the Riviera del Brenta. They are inspired by her Middle Eastern roots and express her femininity, fun and self-confidence.

Photos taken from: oscartiye.com