With the new spring-summer 2023 collection, Casadei launches itself into the future. This Made in Italy shoe specialist looks to tomorrow, the same eyes that pay maniacal attention to quality and finishes, follow the company roots that have been based in San Mauro Pascoli since 1958. In the same place where the author of ‘Il fanciullino’ was born, the imagination of Cesare Casadei blossoms.
Tradition and experimentation, sexiness, psychedelia and avant-garde virtuosity come together in the Casadei summer. This opens with a psychedelic heel that is reminiscent of the curves of the famous chair by Danish designer Verner Panton: Casadei’s spring-summer 2023 inaugurates Elodie, a “landscape-shoe” among pumps, sandals and slingbacks characterized by an unprecedented handwritten 3D logo.
These shoes look like they come out of a Helmut Newton black & white photo, or from a seductive and feminine creation by Ellen Von Unwerth, with whom Casadei has established a close collabo- ration and friendship over the years.
Casadei’s spring-summer 2023 collection is synonymous with the braid on the Berenice upper, where garment-dyed vinyl is created using a modern take on the ancient technique of string threading, ready to hoist on the new cylindrical Cleo heel as on the sinuous rounded Luna wedge, entirely covered by the meticulous weaving of Hanoi vegan leather.
