From the New York Times:
Pilati was walking through Paris when he spotted a pair of sandals on the feet of a Moroccan man. They were rustic, made of woven camel hair, and they were tanned with age. “Did you see those sandals?” Pilati asked Siddhartha Shukla, his head of communications, who was with him. “They are amazing. I want to buy them.” Shukla, who had not noticed the sandals, was sent to purchase them off the man’s feet for 100 euros (about $150). “The guy wanted 500 euros,” Pilati told me a few days later over lunch at the plush Hôtel Plaza Athénée, near his office on the Avenue George V. “But we got them for 100. The sandals are from a tribe of Bedouins, and they are genius. Maybe they’ll inspire me, maybe not. One day, they might fit into a Moroccan moment. You can find greatness everywhere. You just have to look.”
Pilati was walking through Paris when he spotted a pair of sandals on the feet of a Moroccan man. They were rustic, made of woven camel hair, and they were tanned with age. “Did you see those sandals?” Pilati asked Siddhartha Shukla, his head of communications, who was with him. “They are amazing. I want to buy them.” Shukla, who had not noticed the sandals, was sent to purchase them off the man’s feet for 100 euros (about $150). “The guy wanted 500 euros,” Pilati told me a few days later over lunch at the plush Hôtel Plaza Athénée, near his office on the Avenue George V. “But we got them for 100. The sandals are from a tribe of Bedouins, and they are genius. Maybe they’ll inspire me, maybe not. One day, they might fit into a Moroccan moment. You can find greatness everywhere. You just have to look.”
