BUTANOGA

4. November 2011

This story is not for sensitive souls. It is a story for sensitive feet because Butanoga shoes are custom-made from premium materials. But only if read very superficially. As though Perfume were indeed only a story of a murderer, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman were only a romance novel. Then this is definitely a story of an ironic destiny and a great passion for life. Of bravery and a restless spirit. Of wild imagination, which would smother the artist if he clipped its wings. The Butanoga shoe store smells of glue, echoes with rock music, and fascinates the visitor with surrealistic paintings stretched across a cobbler’s canvas. This is where the shoemaker’s symbolic poetry is read. This is where shoes spring to life that ask you directly whether you want to carry your soul on your feet. These are martial, flamboyant, and loud shoes. Nature itself clad male predators in patterns and colours like these. These shoes carry a strong sexual charge. These shoes are loaded.

4. November 2011
BUTANOGA
Matjaž Vlah

Fotografije:
Primož Korošec