If there was a Hall of Fame for shoes the Vara by Salvatore Ferragamo would certainly be inducted into it. It’s not just one of the best-selling designer shoes of all time, it was also one of the first to be designed by a woman – Fiamma Ferragamo – the eldest child of the house founder and the first of the second generation to lead the company.
She created the comfortable, mid-heel, calfskin pump, with its recognisable grosgrain bow, in 1978 but now, over 40 years later, Paul Andrew (the company’s first named in-house shoe designer since Salvatore died in 1960) is reinventing it with a larger, more assertive bow that is, for the first time, constructed in the same material as the rest of the shoe – be it leather, denim, or linen canvas.
With two heel heights and 60 variations there’s never been a better time to join the Vara evolution.
