Buying vintage has become second nature to many of us in recent years – including in the shoe department, where we’ve seen the rise of Margiela Tabis and Miu Miu ballet flats on It-girls everywhere. One common complaint, though? Pre-loved shoes, whether found in the bargain bins of charity shops, or hunted down via the vast array of resale sites now at our fingertips, quickly falling apart after several wears.

“I have a well-loved collection of vintage shoes – too well loved,” Anna Cafolla, Vogue.com’s fashion news editor, tells me. “There’s nothing like the panic of being far from home and feeling your heels begin to dampen as rain seeps through your pumps. I have some Prada heels I got cheap on Italian Vinted that dyed my feet red in the shape of the criss-cross buckle straps,

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