Tabitha Simmons: 'Ideas can materialise from anywhere'

The in-demand shoe designer explains why footwear must be 'comfortable, fashionable, timeless and functional'

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Tabitha Simmons recently catalogued her personal shoe collection and discovered she owns around 500 pairs. Given her line of work, such a hoard is probably far from unusual, but the shoe designer's obsession with footwear started long before she launched her eponymous label in 2009.

"I have McQueen shoes from before I think they even had a shoe line," says the 45-year-old, who was styling Alexander McQueen shows at the time. "I would be scratching at the door, asking, 'Can I have
a sample?' And they'd be like, 'Tabitha, you and your shoes!'"

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