Florence is best known as a tourist destination in the summer – the Uffizi, the Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio – and a menswear hub in January and June, when it plays host to the men’s trade show Pitti Uomo.  But it has...

Hidetaka Fukaya, also known by his nickname Il Micio, is as much artist as artisan.   Shoemakers tend to divide into two groups: those that are primarily driven by the artistic side of their work and those that are moti...