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Sept. 15, 2024
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The brushed calfskin Bella pump at left ($1,050) is a replica of the Salvatore Ferragamo shoe worn by Gloria Swanson (far right, with Raoul Walsh) in a scene from the 1928 film “Sadie Thompson.”
(Salvatore Ferragamo (left), United Artists / Getty Images (right) )In conjunction with the opening of a museum exhibition in Florence, Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo has created a capsule collection of women’s and men’s shoes that celebrates the namesake designer’s years in Hollywood.
Douglas Fairbanks, from left, an unidentified person and Mary Pickford in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 26, 1929. Pickford is wearing a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo pumps that have been re-created as the Assoluta ($1,090) at far right, in conjunction with a museum exhibition in Florence, Italy, that celebrates the connection between that country and the Hollywood film industry.
(Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images (left), Salvatore Ferragamo (right))Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.
Sept. 15, 2024