Poste, London -- Dior Homme, Margiela, Miu Miu ...

[Poste]

Afternoon all. Just dropping in to make a public announcement regarding, uh ... what we've got in store at the moment. Have a look at www.friendsofposte.com for more.

Dior Homme plimsoll sneaker

Here's a fascinating bit of knowledge, footwear geeks: Dunlop devised the first plimsoll back in 1830 -- but, as Poste recalls only all too well, it wasn't much of a looker and worked very poorly with the frilly pantaloons of the time. Dior's homme-age for A/W 2007 should fare a lot better.

Martin Margiela A/W 2007 army sneakers

Any self-respecting footwear connoisseur should know the alleys and backstreets of Antwerp like the back of his hand. While we're expecting Dries van Noten's latest efforts any day now, in the meantime let us present to you Flem compatriot Martin Margiela's latest sneakers.

Miu Miu A/W 2007

Last season's Miu Miu lace-up was a slender, softly chisel-toed affair, and a lesson if ever we saw it in parred-down Italian sophistication. Forget all that for autumn/winter -- Miu Miu's shoe of the season is this brogue, bulbous of toe but slender of profile; a paradox which looks just as good with spray-on jeans as with any variety of suit trouser.

And here we have a solid, sturdy sneaker resembling a particularly luxurious Adidas Stan Smith, we think the regular black is the safe option, but how about some patent?

That's it for now. We try to update www.friendsofposte.com as often as new stock arrives -- go have a look-see if you have time. Thanks for your time.

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Poste

10 South Molton Street

London

W1K 5QJ

Tel: +44 (0)207 499 8002

Web: www.friendsofposte.com

[hewmiri]

did you rip off Stanley Donwood for your blog header?

[Poste]

Ha ha, no. The frame is from a copyright-free image archive.