Biography of walter rodriguez fashion designers

Fashion designer Walter Rodrigues finds himself becoming more and more fascinated by leather’s rustic appeal and he believes it can play an important role in fashion’s circular future.

Walter Rodrigues was born in São Paulo state, where his father ran a team of drovers who moved cattle from place to place in the vast rural spaces of the interior. Mr Rodrigues includes among his favourite possessions a pair of boots that would not have been out of place on those cattle drives. “They speak to my inner cowboy,” he confesses, “even though they are really from Italy. They are by John Galliano. I bought them 11 years ago when Galliano was still designing for men. I love them also because they are very comfortable.”

Cold comfort

He lives in Rio Grande do Sul now, bringing him into the heart, at least in spirit, of the cowboy culture, with all its skilled horsemanship and leathercraft beauty, of