Elli

Elli Lyraraki was born and raised in Athens but she traces her origin in Crete. With her husband, who was well aware of the old art of making sandals, they set up a small workshop where they began creating handmade leather sandals. The couple design and make handmade leather sandals, wedge-heel shoes, ballerinas, bags, earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Moreover, for those entirely handmade shoes, she worked together with specialized painters who applied the batik technique of wax-resist dyeing on silk, used for the first time on shoes. Early on, they fell in love with this work, and step by step, they managed to nurture their dreams and creative aspects. Nowadays, their ready-to-wear collections are available in several stores all over Greece and abroad. ... MoreLess