STYLE ICON: BARON ALEXIS DE REDÉ

The renowned London shoemaker GJ Cleverley supplies a lovely slip-on shoe called after the fabulous guy of design Baron Alexis de Redé (1922– 2004). The Baron, a lender and also a small Austrian aristocrat, lead among the most elegant lives of the second fifty percent of the twentieth century, based in an impressive home in the Hotel Lambert on Paris’s Ile Saint Louis. He was additionally such a respected customer of GJ Cleverley that the business’s handling supervisor, George Glasgow, bears in mind being told by its late owner, George Cleverley, that he just could not keep in mind a time when he had not been making shoes for the Baron.