Borgo San Frediano 143 is a little humidor of a shop, two shoeshine thrones, a small bookshelf of impeccably understated shoes, and, in a cramped workroom behind the counter, two young Japanese assistants, nails held tautly between teeth, wrestling leather around lasts.
Object lessons from a game involving 22 men kicking a bag of leather around a field – who'd have thought it?
Cantona's words won't move those who dismiss football as a bunch of testosterone-fuelled thugs kicking a piece of leather around a field.
The company's eGo Leather Portable Hard Drive wraps a swath of sturdy brown leather around 250 gigabytes of storage so your files can travel in style.
"The bit I knew I could never control was how 11 guys kicked a lump of leather around on the field," O'Brien said during an interview Thursday at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
And for Yves Saint Laurent (inset at top), the hairstylist Julien d'Ys took topknots from really adorable to striking by wrapping a swatch of black leather around the bun.
