It used to be that when you needed a new pair of bespoke shoes, you would visit your cordwainer for the first of several involved consultations. Now, as with everything else, you can do it from the App Store as Swiss luxury goods house Bally introduces Scribe Made-to-order. The service allows you to choose and design every aspect of your new favourite shoe, from the style to the type of leather, the colour and the exact fit. (In this social media-driven world, there's little point in buying new shoes be if you can't share them with 400 of you closest friends via Facebook and Twitter.) The shoes will be made at Bally's Swiss atelier and sent to your door, but Scribe subscribers will have to leave the sofa at some stage - the final tweaks to your order have to be finalized at your local store
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Malcolm Mafara

Since it was founded in 2005 by Ali Hewson with the express purpose of doing high fashion in a more aware way, Edun has worked to aid communities in Africa torn apart by war, famine and disease. This season it introduces an T-shirt programme in partnership with H.E.A.L.S ("Health, Education, Arts, Literacy, Sport") which is based in Gulu in Northern Uganda. H.E.A.L.S is a non-profit organisation that helps those children affected by 25 years of civil war rebuild their country. Edun's collection will feature six T-shirts, each bearing a design by a child who has already been helped by the intiative. edun.com

When Jerome Dreyfuss started making women's bags in 2002, he gave them men's names, the idea being that having a dashing Johann or Richard (bag) on an independent woman's arm would show any flesh and blood man in her life where her priorities lay. As if we hadn't already noticed. Dreyfuss is now making recompense of sorts by designing his first bag collection tailored for men of the modern world. Taking influences from his own life and lifestyle, he's created four refined but practical bags as well as a small accompanying range of leather goods, from iPad cases to coin purses. jerome-dreyfuss.com

Malcolm Mafara