INTERVIEW
Patricia Rosales SUMMER 2012
When dressing, start
with your feet
Members of the royalty, princesses or even celebrities like Heidi Klum or Beyoncé… all of them have something in common: when dressing, they start with their feet. And it’s not just that Patricia Rosales designs make shoes play a major role in a person’s wardrobe, they make them the protagonist. Extravagant and luxurious, they are “couture” designs, crafted with the most noble of materials: exotic brocades, feathers, embroideries, embellishments, fine jewelry, precious stones…
But to Patricia Rosales, designing shoes has been a “quirk of fate”. This is, in her words, how her story unfolds: “From an early age I’ve been passionate about shoes, to the point of starting to collect them. Later on, I studied economy, marketing and graphic design and when I created my first company (ESME), I packed my bags and left to learn the trade, to learn how to be an artisan shoemaker. The concept of what I wanted to do was very clear in my head; I wanted to do something different, that’s why
I started studying gemology and launched my first jewelry shoes collection. I believe that this was meant to be, a friend of mine (the Saudi princess) took the first pair I made and then orders started to arrive”.
Do you still have that collection you began as a child?
Of course, and also books and magazines about shoes back from the 60s, you can recreate someone’s story through shoes.
And how many pairs do you have?
To be honest, I don’t know how many. My size is 37 (Europe), which is the sample size, so you can imagine over 2.000 pairs…
Which is your favorite?
I think it depends on the occasion, but the MONSUL model is a very special shoe, one of the firm’s basics, it’s been named after one of the beaches in AlmerÍa, and it’s a way to keep connected with my homeland…