Edmundo Castillo has spent years designing gorgeous, exotic shoes for the ladies (both for his former namesake collection, and for Santoni, which signed the Puerto Rico-born designer as creative director last year), but the guy himself was most often seen in sneaks. No more. This weekend in Milan, Castillo and partner Manuele Bianchi debut Casbia, [...]

This has got to be one of the coolest FNO ideas we’ve heard so far. Edmundo Castillo is renting a black Winnebago, filling it with vintage Edmundo Castillo shoes, his Fall 2009 Edmundo Castillo for Narciso Rodriguez creations, and other accessories like necklaces and candles, and setting up his shop on wheels on the corner [...]

For centuries the espadrille was relegated to peasant status, and since 1927 the Spanish shoe company Castañer was content producing jute-soled footwear for country-dwelling Catalonians. That is, until the sixties, when Yves Saint Laurent went to the brand with a sketch of a previously unheard-of heeled espadrille, and the resulting collaboration kicked off a fashion [...]