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Byline: Jane Herman
I put a lot of love into that shoe," says 32-year-old Alejandro Ingelmo, pointing to a suede-and-snakeskin d'Orsay sandal with a very eighties spiked heel. Named after his aunt Rita, it is Ingelmo's favorite, and like all of the tough, ladylike, and textured shoes in his premiere collection, it is a tribute to family and, more specifically, to the family history of shoemaking that began with Ingelmo's great-grandfather in Salamanca, Spain, more than 100 years ago.
Born in Miami, Ingelmo is the first in his family, which became famous in '30s and '40s Cuba for ...