Famed Colombian shoemaker teams up with Poppy Delevingne

Fancy footwear’s latest wunderkind is 30-year-old Edgardo Osorio of Aquazzura. The dapper Colombian is sporting a perfectly tailored jacket and adjusting a pair of his creations on display in a suite at The Upper House in Pacific Place. It is pouring with rain outside and more ominous dark clouds loom, but the fashion editor favourite is in an upbeat mood. He is in Hong Kong to show off a new capsule collaboration.

Osorio has joined forces with British model and consummate It girl Poppy Delevingne for a collection he says was inspired by a treasured piece of Delevingne’s own jewellery and the celestial sphere. Read into it what you will, but people expected something good to happen when they heard that these two fashion stars had aligned. Together, in person, they are two of the prettiest, shiniest people you are ever likely to meet.

“I actually met Poppy in Paris and she was wearing my shoes. I just thought it was meant to be,” Osorio says.

Almost as if on cue, Delevingne, who was delayed, bursts into the room, all glamour puss blonde hair, sheer black minidress and a pair of strappy tied flats at the end of her long legs.

“Oh, doesn’t it just feel like a dream?” she announces to everyone in the room, and quips, “we brought you the rain as a gift.”

The pair hit it off instantly. And soon enough are planning design meetings to discuss their collaboration, after Osorio had been toying with the idea.