Michele Savino was a
Broadway-based
shoemaker and designer of
ballet slippers. His clientele included the famed dancer
Marilyn Miller, for whom he designed
pointe shoes
A pointe shoe (, ), also called a ballet toe shoe or simply toe shoe, is a type of shoe worn by ballet dancers when performing pointe work. Pointe shoes were conceived in response to the desire for dancers to appear weightless and sylph-like an ...
. According to
appraiser Elyse Luray, this placed him at the "peak of his profession". He owned a shop located at 324
West 42nd Street
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. In April 1931, he filed a patent for a ballet slipper intended to contain "a structure which is light in weight, durable, and noiseless when in use." The patent was granted on April 3, 1934 (Pat No. 1,953,659).
References
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Shoemakers
Shoe designers