"I just wanted to tell you how delighted I am with these two items and your customer service.Although I buy a lot online I always remain sceptical about getting "what it says on the tin". These boots and top exceed expectations; the boots especially which are of gorgeous quality and unbelievably comfortable.I also hate spending a lot and receiving a crinkled mass in a padded envelope or plastic bag. Your packaging was wonderful especially the hand string tied parcels and hand written label!I will definitely be back"(Pam, Milton Keynes)

A short while back I agreed to meet a young, fledgling shoe designer called Aksha Fernandez at a coffee shop in Marylebone.I had liked the fuzzy black and white pictures she had sent through to us and I was intrigued enough to meet up, even though at this time Aksha had no production planned and, what's more, we had spent up our season's budget.The coffee shop was rammed and we sat huddled over a tiny table for two with bags and laptops and briefcases spilling about. Leaning down Aksha lifted out a crisp white box and unwrapped swathes of tissue to reveal my very first Aksha Fernandez shoe.As with the first time I touched a ruffled Felicity Brown gown or gloried in the colour and print of a Charlotte Taylor shirt I felt the shivers ..

Sometimes a pair of shoes gets into your head and won't let go. You can see yourselves in them, see them making every outfit burst into life, see everyone staring at your gorgeous new heels. What you absolutely can't see is your life, your wardrobe, your summer without them. T's been that way with me since I laid eyes on the Sirena skyscraper heels from Atalanta Weller. They are everything I love about young British designers and they are everything I love, personally, in a shoe. They are high. But being made by Atalanta I know that I will be able to walk in them all day long with that peculiar springy comfort only her designs give me. They have an element of strapped up bondage about them. Something that makes me feel at once s..