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cordwainery
noun
Shoemaking
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Elevator pitch A chance for the little people to get up close and personal with the work of fashion's favourite cordwainer.
The selection from Pierre Corthay, a French cordwainer, was gorgeous, including long, thin black oxfords with eyelets high near the ankle ($1,150), and two-tone shoes with a scalloped ridge.
How, in a city with rich cordwainer and bespoke traditions, were our options limited to unreliable cobblers, far-away specialists and poor customer experiences?
The wards are: Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bassishaw, Billingsgate, Bishopsgate, Bread Street, Bridge and Bridge Without, Broad Street, Candlewick, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman Street, Cordwainer, Cornhill, Cripplegate, Dowgate, Farringdon Within, Farringdon Without, Langbourn, Lime Street, Portsoken, Queenhithe, Tower, Vintry, Walbrook.
Let's take back our Cordwainer Smiths, our Jack Vances, our Philip J Farmers, and our Ursula K Le Guins.
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After graduating with first-class honours from the esteemed shoe-making college, Cordwainers, Webster went on to complete a Masters degree in footwear design at the Royal College of Art in 2009 – her final collection there was picked up by that famous champion of fresh design talent, Browns.
So says Richard Susskind, IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, who reckons that in a few decades, lawyers could be as forgotten as the medieval professions of mercers and cordwainers are today.
Apprentices were poked from straw, lined up, scratching, in the Hall; alongside yeomen, glovers, weavers, smiths, brewers, cordwainers..
Kirkwood, 32, trained at Central Saint Martins and Cordwainers before working with milliner Philip Treacy and launching his eponymous label in 2005.
What I like about the award-winning Cordwainers' alumni is that she shuns catwalk trends in favour of doing her own thing.
It offers a record of quaint traditions, striking statuary (the bronzier and nuder the better, in my opinion) and important institutions (from dining clubs to the city guilds – Armourers and Brasiers, Broderers, Cordwainers, Loriners, Paviors, Poulters and more).
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