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LORIBLU – Brand History & Spring-Summer 2009 Collection Highlights
The Loriblue company was founded in early 70′s. The business? ? started manufacturing 700 pairs of shoes per week, expressing the force of the product from the very beginning.
Loriblu Gold Leather Sandals adorned with Swarowski crystals ($768)? (above)
In 1978,? the Loriblue brand? sucessfully introduced the most popular style “Mignon”, the extremely feminine shoe that was made of leather stripes plaited together that was immediately considered trendy and innovative:? a model that one could wear all year long, no matter what the season was. This was the year of the the? Loriblu boom, when? 110,000 pairs of “Mignon” shoes were sold. Loriblu became an international company, maintaining its creative heart inspired by the consumers??™ taste for handcrafted details in footwear.
Loriblu Gold Leather Sandals adorned with Swarowski crystals ($966) (above)
While developing a unique style and brand maturity, Loriblu? marches into? the 80??™s with another innovative choice from a creative viewpoint and from more research into handcrafts: this was the age of the ???jewel sandal???. Rhinestones, crystals, Swarovski crystals started a lively but sophisticated fashion trend, which in 1996 reached its greatest expression through the creation of a unique style: “The golden shoe” was made in occasion of the “Scarpetta d’oro” award for style awarded within the footwear industry. The Golden Shoe was a symbolic shoe, made entirely of gold, diamonds and zircons with an estimated value of 50 million lira of the time.
Loriblu? Spring-Summer 2009 Collection Ad? (above)
The Loriblu??™s precious footwear approached the 90′s and the new Millennium, enriching the brand??™s personality by promoting research on the product and by paying attention to the company??™s mood. During the 2007 Luxury Trade Fair a particular golden slipper was exhibited and admired, this footwear was created for a prestigious customer and was made with exclusive materials: black decorated satin on one ankle strap, 18k golden heels and natural river pearls.
Loriblu? Spring-Summer 2009 Collection Ad? (above)
Today, many Italian and International Celebrities are captured by the Loriblu shoes, the new object of feminine desire. The? footwear goes beyond the boundaries of the accessories sector creating out of the ordinary and unexpected combinations that signifies Loriblu’s approach to the glamourous styling: an ethereal sensuality that now also involves men, ready to? satisfy the most demanding tasted and most vivid imaginations.
Loriblu? Sandals adorned with Swarovski Crystals (above)
The pleasure and elegance that has always characterized Loriblu, where the richness of every single creation goes together with absolute comfort, is clearly appreciable in the exclusive and precious ???jewel sandals???. Even more than during the past, decorated like real art works, thanks to a particular research on stones and crystals all hand fixed. Jewel for feet, worn and loved by the most famous celebrities.
Loriblu? White & Gold? d’Orsay Sandals (above)
Printings playing with tones and the most luxury materials, where a joyful and forever young woman can look at her reflection in a pond full of light.
