The sneakers’ boom? “A sign of the times, destined to end”

It starts with Albarcas (“clog from Cantabria”). It ends with Zori (“Japanese flip-flop”). Passing through sneakers, which is experiencing the boom we all know. Eugenio Gallavotti’s “I racconti delle scarpe” (Shoes tales ed – FrancoAngeli, 158 pages) is an ‘illustrated lexicon’ aimed at insiders, students and, more generally, shoe-aholics. A bird’s-eye view of models, processes,…