Milan Fashion Week: The importance of shoes for stylish men

Recently, while talking to colleagues covering the fashion shows, we came up with the idea of ​​asking them how they observe a collection on a catwalk. For many, the formula is simple: first look at the overall silhouette arriving, then analyze from top to bottom - the jacket, a key element of masculine elegance , the shirt and its details, the trousers and their fall... But when the gaze reaches the shoes , according to most, the attention has fallen, paying little attention to these "accessories". Yet, "footwear" is today the queen category of men's fashion, constituting the bulk of the turnover of many brands - and up to 60% of the men's revenue of some department stores!

In short, men's shoes are anything but an accessory. Hence our surprise when we discovered the Bally collection, the first since the departure of the talented artistic director Simone Bellotti from Jil Sander. The house has curiously decided to wipe the slate clean of its heritage by…