Trimmed with Petersham ribbon

Audrey Hepburn: Una Donna, Lo Stile, Florence, Museo Salvatorre Ferragamo, 2009, No. 110.

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By family tradition, these shoes were acquired from Capezio. Audrey’s son Sean remembers ‘bundles of these shoes arriving, folded flat, fastened by a rubber band’ and he suggests Hepburn may well have bought them en masse from Capezio, when her favourite model was discontinued.
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