A portrait of Stefano Miele
“I am a bear, lazy, greedy, but attack when there is a need”. Word of Stefano Miele . And he is one of the new names to keep an eye on in Milan where he launched his shoe collection which in its first season is already making its way into the world of prestigious multi-brand and unreachable department stores. The name Haus of honey , a true aesthetic collection. Between Bauhaus, the beloved bears and his surname. With a seal, those cork wedges that were born as an act of love for the mother. A change in his career in fashion, from commercial teams to design …I’ve always wanted to design shoes, but I’ve never been fully aware of it. But over time I realized that I am an expert and that I have a precise taste linked to my family, to my origin which is Gaeta. My mom had a shoe shop there for 50 years and she used to sell beautiful ones, including cork wedges that stuck with me. Her wedges are very high, an approach close to architecture … And they are very light, everything is made in Italy. And full cork, not a liner. A cork that is already her signature. Because precisely this material I grew up with the idea of ​​ladies trying on these shoes. And I remember a brand of wedges, Mario Bologna. Right in my mother’s shop I saw that he had a plexi plate with inside, instead of the logo, a piece of cork with an embroidery. I recovered it, I got it from my mother and I left from here. From past to present. How his shoes must be . About him Irresistible about him. And comfortable, otherwise you don’t use them, you don’t consume them and you don’t want another color. My mother used to say: “If you sell uncomfortable shoes, customers don’t come back.” His is also a tribute to Made in Italy and a new joyful spirit … The cork wedges also derive from the love for Salvatore Ferragamo. They were born after World War II out of the need of the ladies not to get hurt with the debris. A sort of assonance with the present, today the wedge is used to trample the debris of the pandemic. Walking on precious shoes embroidered with beads, stones, rhinestones … And lacquered. It occurred to me after seeing the Leggy dolls of the 70s that competed with Barbie , they had kilometric legs and colorful wedges on their feet. And then there is a discourse of inclusiveness, with sizes up to 45. She is forging ahead
But calmly. In this I feel like a bear, I am lazy, greedy, but when there is a need for attack. If the train passes, I’ll wait for the next one and if it’s not there, I’ll build myself a train.We need to build something that has substance underneath. And this is the message . The only thing I feel like a graduate in is shoes. I knelt at the feet of customers when I went to my mother’s shop, while she wanted me to study at home. From Gaeta how he arrived in Milan My mother used to take me there to shop. My cousin, the stylist Francesca Rubino , designed Cheap & chic . When I was nine I saw my first Moschino show , but then I started a journey of theater, acting, television. Until I was 18, when I moved to New York to work in showrooms, then to London at Tom Ford . Then in Milan, at Miu miu .And now his brand. The name Haus of honey where it comes from My name is Stefano Miele and at home I am surrounded by bears. Haus as a tribute to the Bauhaus, to the inclusiveness of a school where no training was required to enter, so that students could express themselves instinctively. Instinct was tied to novelty. What her instinct about her tells her I think I’ll do a parallel line of Texans. So we could find, in one photo, a man with wedges and a woman with Texans.
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