When Marina Larroude launched her shoe brand Larroudé five years ago she knew she had to get the blessing of Candy Pratts Price. Her former boss at Style.com and forever mentor, Pratts Price is famously discerning. I know, I worked alongside her for five years at Style.com too. But if CPP, as we called her, was hard to please, she had a soft side too.

Exhibiting the same flair for a soundbite she did in The September Issue documentary about the making of a 2008 edition of Vogue —her iconic line, “September is the January of fashion” is now an internet meme—Pratts Price was quick to praise her onetime protégé. “Marina could’ve done anything—jewelry, for instance—but a shoe gets you places,” Pratts Price told me at the time. “I support anyone who has courage and I’m very proud of her.

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