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The Kitten Slingback
$795
A low, refined slingback engineered for the length of a smaller foot, not scaled from a larger one. Italian leather, US sizes 1–5.
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The Story
The making of the Kitten Slingback
The heel you actually reach for.
Not every night asks for a stiletto. The kitten slingback is the one you wear when you want to be dressed, not staged — lunch, the office, the long dinner that becomes a longer evening. It is the shoe petite women are offered least and want most, because low-and-elegant almost always arrives as low-and-childish. This is neither.
The Gap
A woman who wears a US 1 to 5 has spent her life at the edges of the shoe wall — sent to the children’s floor, or asked to force a narrow foot into a size five and pretend it fits. The great houses draw their lasts for an average foot and stop there. Below a five, luxury was simply never offered.
It was never a question of whether the shape could be made small. It was that no one had ever cut the last to make it properly.
Hand-lasting the slingback
The heel pitch, set for a shorter foot
A lower heel, engineered — not just shorter.
On a shorter foot, a low heel is a matter of pitch, not just height: get the angle right for the length of the foot and the shoe stands correctly. We engineered the pitch for each size in the range rather than scaling it down from a larger last, and cut the slingback strap and heel cup for a smaller heel so it holds where it should.
You cannot take a size-eight pattern, scale it down and expect it to sit right — the proportions break, the toe reads stubby, the heel lands under the wrong part of the foot. So we did the slow thing. We began from a petite last and drew every line for the foot that would actually wear it.
Italian leather, quietly made.
Made in Italy, in the same full-grain leather as the pump, on a heel built to last. Refined and on-trend — never the leftover shape that simply happens to come small.
The Hands
Every pair is made in Italy, in a workshop where lasting a shoe by hand is a trade passed down. The leather is full-grain, chosen and cut for the scale of a smaller shoe. The heel is built on a proper core rather than a moulded shell — considered construction, so nothing about the shoe is an afterthought.
Full-grain Italian leather
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