It so happen I grew up in Tuscany and when I was in elementary school I remember day-dreaming to dress up as a grown-up with  corduroy pants, a “Flora” Gucci silk shirt, a pair of horsebit loafers (brown suede) and a Roberta di Camerino Bagonghi plush silk velveteen purse.

(image from www.robertadicamerino.it)

Truthfully, the only thing that belonged to me were the corduroy pants, the rest was my mother’s. 

This is 2013 and the Horsebit Loafer Collection is looking dapper and iconic at 60 years old. Worn by Hollywood’s who’s who in the ’50s, that double ring with bar element pilfered from the world of horseback riding became a symbol. Worn by Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver , Jane Birkin and Alain Delon, the loafer that takes up to two days to be produced has walked through the years reaching 

(image from www.gucci.com)

3 decades after playing dress-up, what’s left of those brown suede shoes are the two horsebits and a desire to own the loafers that go attached to them.