Julia Baldini
ydney cobbler Julia Baldini’s shoes won’t play second fiddle to any outfit. Instead, she wants them to have a presence: stomping, fierce, theatrical. Take her newest pieces – knee-high, trimmed with a ballooning leather ruff, or shaggy blood-red Mongolian lambswool. They’re daring, a bit punk and slightly dangerous. “I found myself captivated by the dual nature of poisonous and medicinal flowers,” she explains of the inspiration behind pieces like the faux fur-lined Dandelion boots, which, seen from above, look like the mouths of
