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Everyone Thinks These $79 Shoes are Celine

Everyone Thinks These $79 Shoes are Celine

They're actually garden shoes.

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Isabel Slone
May 25, 2025
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If you’re the kind of person who can appreciate a hand-carved Bowie knife with a handle shaped like a whale, walking into a [REDACTED] is like being enveloped by a tiny slice of heaven. In one corner, ancient-looking calipers that look like they might have belonged to Galileo mingle next to dowels for performing intricate leatherwork. In another, gleaming stainless steel pasta-making machines sit alongside something called a "pastry compass." Then in another, perhaps more timid corner, there are clothes. This is where I found a pair of deeply charming rain boots that almost everyone I know mistakes for Celine.

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