ROOTED SOLES
For a shoe brand to be respected around the world, you must start with a simple idea, inject beauty, and travel back in time. High quality footwear with favorably high style just doesn’t happen overnight, it takes generations to maintain high quality while pivoting to modern tastes. DANIEL PLUS LAUREN at FSNYE came across Amalfi/ Valentina by Rangoni to witness 2 shoe collections under one roof. Nothing lackluster can be said about this nearly 100 year brand, every item pumps out beautiful work on your feet.
Let’s start with Amalfi, the mother brand of this longstanding footwear collection who utilizes every principle of shoe style. Suede, velvet, and mules produce beautiful high heels, elongated ballet flats, and boots for such external beauty. Amalfi uses leather in solid black and brown on their boots with hardware details for that simplistic classic beauty. And leopard in all prints plays a sexy role in ballet flats that align perfectly with a woman’s little black dress, pantsuit, or high-end casual.
Valentina, the 3rd generation of Ragoni, gears directly to the sophisticated business woman with practical high heels and ballet flats. Colors mainly black, brown, and white act as beautiful exterior to interior of sky blue that speaks loudly of the young contemporary business woman. Short and high rain boots in neutral and unprecedented design give off a new young vibe mean for the outgoing GEN Z/ Millennial woman. And hardware with wedge high heels embedded to every simple shoe style make it real easy for Valentina to feel the young vibe.