PHOTOGRAPHY: ROMAIN LAPRADE WRITER: LAURA HAWKINS
‘I had no shoe design background at all,’ says
Capucine Safyurtlu, the chic former fashion stylist
who became the first creative director of Chinese
footwear label Stella Luna in February 2016. Its founder
and CEO, Stephen Chi, saw Safyurtlu’s Parisian
aesthetic and Vogue-honed editing prowess as essential
arsenal for European expansion.
‘What was really missing at Stella Luna was a strong
DNA,’ explains Safyurtlu of the 12-year-old label, which
is owned by Stella International Holdings, a Hong
Kong footwear manufacturer that has been working »HEEL SPIN
The French fashionista injecting Parisian
panache into a Chinese shoe brandCAPUCINE SAFYURTLU,
CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF
CHINESE SHOE BRAND
STELLA LUNA, PHOTOGRAPHED
AT ITS PARIS HQ IN JUNE.
SHE WEARS CIGARETTE HEEL
OVER-THE-KNEE LEATHER
BOOTS, €328, BY STELLA LUNAFashion
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