Emerging Footwear Label Liudmila Debuts Collaboration with Avigail Collins
As the story goes, Najeeba Hayat, founder and creative director of up-and-coming footwear label Liudmila, was freshly graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in government when she decided that she wasn’t destined for a life of bureaucratic “banging your head against the wall.” Pursuing a lifelong love of style, Hayat moved to Milan and took a shoemaking course at the ArsSutoria School.
The name Liudmila comes from an early 20th-century novel Hayat fell in love with in Russian literature: Fyodor Sologub’s The Petty Demon. The brand, launched four years ago in 2013, has been catching the attention of niche boutiques ever since.
Hayat’s latest project is a collaboration with Avigail Collins, the London-based stylist to Rihanna. Here are a few glimpses of the collection, which includes pink gingham with accompanying rhinestone anklets and more …
