Walter Steiger, sole trader

A Geneva shoe designer with Parisian flair.

This content was published on April 9, 2012 - 11:00

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Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in 1965. Trained as a photographer in Zürich, he started working as a photojournalist in 1989. He was a founder of the Swiss photographers agency Lookat Photos in 1990. Thomas Kern has won twice a World Press Award and has been awarded several Swiss national scholarships. His work has been widely exhibited and it is represented in various collections.

Walter Steiger has boutiques everywhere, including a bespoke shoe shop on Faubourg St Honoré in Paris. The son of a cobbler, Steiger has worked with some of the biggest names in high fashion and today the enthusiastic 70-year-old remains a perfectionist and aesthete. His sons Paul and Giulio are now following in his footsteps. (Isabelle Eichenberger and Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)

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Walter Steiger, sole trader

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