Meet Annie Abbot the woman behind Melbourne shoe label Habbot. I was invited to visit her Chapel St Pop up shop last week and it was a delight to have a coffee and a croissant surrounded by gorgeous shoes. Annie started the label after working overseas for Net-a-porter.com and in Sydney for Sass & Bide. That’s exposure to a lot of luxury goods, and Annie wanted to bring an element on superb Italian craftsmanship to our shores in shoes that are perfect for the Australian market.
All of the shoes are designed here by Annie and made by hand in Italy from calf or kid leather, the latest collection being inspired by circus girls.
If you are in Melbourne make sure you visit the shop(they’re on sale too at the moment: love) if for no other reason than to check out this amazing label from our very own shores. I’ll be wearing Habbot to LMFF later in the year, something tells me the label is really going to soar in 2012.
Me trying on the ‘Torres‘ from the current collection which were my favourite pair….
until I tried on these that are a peek at what’s coming for A/W shortly!
