EXCLUSIVE: TheARTI$t Turns Love Into Design With IRIS. Loafer

Essence Magazine:

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For TheARTI$t, the outfit has always started from the ground up.

“Footwear has always been the ‘it’ factor for me,” she says, describing it less as a trend and more as a foundation. A shoe has the ability to shift the entire tone of a look, to anchor it, or to push it somewhere

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