Adriano Stefanelli has been making handmade shoes for the most important men in the world in Corso Cavour workshop in downtown Novara since 1954.
His clients include Silvio Berlusconi and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa.
The most talked about is the pair of red shoes he made for Pope Benedict XVI.
Pope John Paul II likes to wear brown slippers, and Pope Benedict XVI wears red ones.
This pair of shoes was originally mistaken for Prada’s, but it was later found out that Adriano Stefanelli made it for him.
Adriano Stefanelli also made shoes for the Obama couple.
