Italian Sneakers

I have a confession. For years, I bought luxury sneakers with my eyes and my ego, never once thinking about what they were made of. It was all about the logo, the silhouette, the way the leather creased just so. Then I read a report about the fashion industry’s carbon footprint, looked down at my…

For years, I believed that sneakers and luxury were mutually exclusive. Sneakers were for the gym, for errands, for weekends when I didn‘t care how I looked. Luxury was for leather-soled dress shoes, for hand-stitched loafers, for the kind of footwear that required a certain amount of suffering. Then I discovered Italian luxury sneakers, and…