THE DESIGNER
Luca Lubello is the founder and Creative Director of the brand. He is a Creative Designer who, after completing his studies in fashion design in 2009, began his career in the world of footwear working as an assistant for Alessandro Gaggio, Ernesto Esposito. And then he discovered his own visions to apply to the world of footwear and decided to grow and perfect his original and visionary design and craftsmanship techniques.
After significant experiences in the creative offices of Salvatore Ferragamo and Max Verre, Lubello moved to Florence in 2012 to contribute to the birth and development of the Louis Leeman brand, which in just a few seasons was considered a direct competitor of the most important luxury footwear brands. During his time in Florence, he also collaborated with prestigious brands such as Casadei and Mary Katrantzou. Florence represents a unique mix of beauty, art, architecture: a perfect treasure chest in which Lubello decided to settle permanently and, in 2019, to start his own personal project.
There is Helmut Newton hidden in the shoes of the Lubello women's collection. There is the photographic eye that immortalized fascinating models in atmospheres of seduction and luxury. Magical those images! Between the end of the Seventies and the beginning of the Eighties those shots in rigorous black and white were the triumph of vision, of beauty, of a dream increasingly balanced between irony and passion. What will remain of these fetishes of a social revolution? Certainly the photos of the sculptural bodies and enchanting faces of top models such as Charlotte Rampling, Grace Jones, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert. But those sharp stiletto heels that accompanied the steps of the beauties also come to mind. It was precisely the shoe that united the photos like an artist's signature, that marked the shots, that gave even more impetus and vigor to female figures with extraordinarily harmonious proportions. Seduction starts from the shoe, even on a naked body. It starts from amazement.
Technology and craftsmanship blend and confront each other in the Lubello women's collection. They are patent leather evening shoes with a 105 mm steel Paris heel, enriched with zirconia stones. They are sculptures to wear. Those heels are as refined as columns of a Greek temple, but they are sharp weapons for a seduction that pierces the heart, like a stab. Elegance and glamour start from the shoe, it is the starting point of a revelation, of a journey into the female personality. The shoes of the Lubello women's collection are icons of this time, of a time that is awakening and restarting, that is regeneration. The woman is the protagonist of a new world, she is the one who is called to be divine. And so a dive into the past in homage to Helmut Newton, but so much future to build, step by step. Obviously.