SAVE THE DATE
June 14th & 15th, 2013

Waagnatie
Antwerp 2000 Belgium

More info soon at http://www.antwerp-fashion.be/

COCCODRILLO are pleased to announce that we will be stocking CHRISTIAN DIOR by RAF SIMONS ready-to-wear ladies shoe collection from the Autumn Winter 2013-14 season. For his second season at the house, the Belgian designer revisited the early illustrations of ANDY WARHOL across ‘memory dresses’, played with house signatures like houndstooth, leather and fur, all set to a haunting soundtrack by LAURIE SIMMONS including “O Superman” and a domestic recount between Laurie and a veterinarian over her dog’s diet.

At Miuccia Prada’s AW13 men’s show in Milan last week, the mistress of modern sent a rather staid, retro collection of checked shirts and primary coloured staples down the runway – a celebration of the perfect normal.

What really had our tongues wagging (despite a couple of brilliant brogues!) was the Rem Koolhaas-designed show set, dotted with furniture concept modules commissioned by Mrs. Prada that will go into commercial production with KNOLL later in the year.

Already living in Prada shoes, but feel like living in a complete Prada living room? For the first time, perhaps you can.

Above: Marienplatz Munich, Germany 5/2/13

Our friends at WeberHodelFeder have been tracking a shoe hunt around the globe, snapping shots of their colorful high-top brogues in various international locations. From the banks of the Ganges river in India to the Met museum in New York city, follow this footwear fantasy, and send in your own WeberHodelFeder snaps to geert@coccodrillo.be for us to publish too!

COCCODRILLO Men’s and Ladies Boutique invite you to enjoy up to 50% off selected designer shoe styles from the Autumn Winter 2012-13 Season in store at our Antwerp boutiques.

Featuring:

A.F.VANDEVORST
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
BALENCIAGA
CAR SHOE
CHURCH’S
DRIES VAN NOTEN
EDMUNDO CASTILLO
FERRAGAMO CRÉATIONS
GIANVITO ROSSI
LANVIN
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA
MAX VERRE
MIU MIU
MR. HARE
NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD
n.d.c
PACO RABANNE
PRADA
PRADA LINEA ROSSA
TABITHA SIMMONS
SAINT-LAURENT

Until January 31st 2013

www.coccodrillo.be

Wishing all our friends and customers, fans and followers a wonderful New Years Eve, wherever you are in the world.

Thank you for all your support and custom in 2012!

XX Geert, Eddy and the COCCODRILLO team

COCCODRILLO Men’s Boutique presents the first collection of men’s footwear by the Antwerp-based collective WEBERHODELFEDER.

Established in 2012 and comprised of young designers Matthias Weber, Niklaus Hodel and Florian Feder, the WEBERHODELFEDER trio possesses a shared experience of over two decades in fashion, and offers an uncompromising, fashionable product that fuses artisanal savoir-faire with industry expertise. The young designers hail from both Germany and Switzerland, and all have studied at the Antwerp fashion academy.

Tired of the standardised offerings of large-scale houses, WEBERHODELFEDER reinterpret traditional men’s styles in an avant-garde colour palette, while skillfully blending sportswear design details with dress shoes for a new and casual classicism. A banana-coloured brogue with a gum sole? They’ve done it. Perhaps a Velcro-strapped wingtip boot? No problem.

WEBERHODELFELDER is sold exclusively at COCCODRILLO for the Spring Summer 2013 season.

COCCODRILLO has proudly presented the pinnacle of emerging footwear design since 1984.

All photography © Boy Kortekaas

Read the man himself Mr. Marc Hare on his AW12-13 collection, now instore at Coccodrillo Mens Boutique!

AT LARGE

While some people may covet an honour or title to be bestowed upon them in recognition for their services to…I personally have always been intrigued by the simple appendage of an “At Large” after my name. What does it even mean? Firstly it’s an Idiom. * Secondly it is usually followed by the words ‘to do as he pleases”. It basically denotes a state of freedom or a state where one is constantly receptive to pleasure. I am not sure the Queen has an honour to cover that.

So… At Large, as a shoe collection? In my mind the capital city of At Large would have to be night time Soho in London. If you have not been there, just imagine the epicentre of night time action in your town and improvise. At Large in Soho will invariably take in princes and paupers, romancers and walkers, life changing truths and colossal porkers. You need shoes that are acceptable from the swankiest clubs to the grimiest pubs, stealth shoes with the charisma to hold court, but sturdy enough to fight your way out should your At Largess inflame the regulars.

To this end I have mainly used sturdy high shine calf leather that has a very smart appearance and won’t be troubled by a splash of beer or incoming clumsy dancers. Rubber soles of all descriptions ensure our wearer at large maintains an upright demeanour whether descending or ascending from street level. The colour palette is richly understated using black, dark grey, toffee, plum and British racing green.

The At Large collection is based around a new last called Rico. Shorter in length than previous Mr. Hare lasts with a rounded point toe, it is less elegant but no less handsome. There are six new styles, which take their names from six of Soho’s greatest proponents of the At Large statute. Bernard is a classic Derby. Bacon is a bebop monk strap. Cooke is a mocc toed derby boot. Deakin is a ghillie inspired creation of my own hand. Freud is a brogued cads boot with a vintage military grain while Wilde is a loafer Oscar may even have been seduced by himself.

Mr. Hare. At Large. If not the catalyst for an honour at some point then certainly my epitaph of choice.

*Google it. I am trying to get all the main facts on one side of A4.

Silk evening pumps by Elsa Schiaparelli (1939) in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An autumn bouquet by Mark Colle and the latest hand-signed arrivals from WeberHodelFeder now in COCCODRILLO men’s boutique.