Shoe shopping in Rome
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Fausto Santini
Rome’s best-known shoe designer, Fausto Santini is famous for his beguilingly simple, architectural shoe designs. Colours are beautiful, quality impeccable.
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Posto Italiano
Reasonably priced Posto Italiano has an always-beguiling collection of fashionable, accessible and highly wearable women’s shoes. A showcase for emerging Italian designers, it also stocks more established brands.
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Loco
Sneaker fetishists should hotfoot it to Loco for the very latest in big-statement footwear. It’s a small shop, but full of attitude, with an interesting collection of original sneakers (for boys and girls), winged boots and suede sandals by international and Italian designers.
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De Bach
Squeezed between the big-name outlets, De Bach sells glittering shoes for girls with attitude. Six-inch stiletto-heeled sandals in gold and silver are not for the faint-hearted but, hell, lady, you're the boss.
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Sciù Scià
Walk past and you’d miss it but the local ladies love Sciù Scià for its own range of handmade shoes and multicoloured suede bags. Styles are sensible but chic, classic with a twist, and the quality is excellent. Bank on at least €90 for flats, €150 plus for a bag.
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AVC by Adriana V Campanile
Designer Campanile started with a small shop in Parioli, and nowadays her heels stalk the city. You can see why: AVC shoes and boots are covetably wearable, stunningly chic and practical – and not insanely priced.
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AVC by Adriana V Campanile (Galleria Alberto Sordi)
Roman designer Campanile started with a small shop in Parioli, and nowadays her heels stalk the city. You can see why: AVC’s shoes and boots are covetably wearable, stunningly chic and practical – and not insanely priced.
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Mada
Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Mada is one of those shops that transcends fashion, supplying supremely elegant, beautifully made shoes (€210 to €380) to discerning Italian women of all ages. Pure old-school Italian quality.
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Crepida
Join the queues of Romans-in-the-know at this tiny shop tucked behind Largo Argentina. Here you can get custom-made shoes at off-the-peg prices; that is, €250 for a pair of boots, €135 for a pair of shoes. They take about 10 days to make.
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Tod’s
The trademark of Tod’s is its rubber-studded loafers (the idea was to reduce those pesky driving scuffs), perfect weekend footwear for kicking back at your country estate.
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Borini
Don’t be fooled by the discount, workaday look – those in the know pile into this unglitzy shop, run by the Borinis since 1940, to try on the cool, candy-coloured shoes. Whatever is ‘in’ this season, Borini will have it, at reasonable prices and in a cover-every-eventuality rainbow palette.
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Calzature Boccanera
This well-known Testaccio shoe store stocks big designer names at big designer prices. You’ll find everything from Clark’s desert boots to Gucci slip-ons, Prada heels and Tod’s loafers, as well as bags, belts and leather luxuries. It’s particularly worth a look at sale time.
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Fausto Santini Outlet
Close to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, this store is named after Fausto Santini’s father, Giacomo. It sells end-of-line and sale Fausto Santini boots, shoes and bags, and is well worth a look for a bargain for his signature architectural designs in butter-soft leather at a fraction of the retail price. Sizes are limited, however.
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