The showroom of Simone Cecchetto, aka Augusta, is in the attic of a nondescript building in the 12th. The small elevator is broken, so we take the winding staircase up eight christian louboutin.

Simone’s handmade crafts, about 16 styles in all, sit bathed in light like sculptures. These shoes (no high-heels!) are artisanal collectibles – different from everything we’ve seen. Cecchetto, a handsome, painfully shy man in his 30s, explains how he buys tile christian louboutin sale- horse, deer, pig, goat and reptile – direct from the tannery. Lisa swoons over a pair of light-beige boots; on the sole, you can see the veins of the stretched Christian Louboutin Boots.

Once Mona Moore stocks one style of Augusta footwear, they won’t reorder it – this is an exclusive oneshot deal! Unlike the bigger labels, there are no order forms. Anna tells Simone what she wants and he scribbles it down on a sheet of loose-christian shoes.

2 p.m. After a lunch of mussels and frites, we take the Metro to the Champs-Elysées to find the Nina Ricci collection – the opposite of the masculine Augusta shoes. Anna falls hard for a pair of cognac booties while Lisa slips into a pair of white lace heels – perfect with a wedding gown or jeans. Anna has known Olivier Theyskens, the quiet black-haired beauty, since the early days when he produced his own label.