A NEW EDGE TO YOUR FEET
FOOTWEAR DESIGNER Miguel DaCosta lives by this three-rule mantra: quality, comfort and style, to deliver an eccentric flavour to the fashion industry. “I fell in love with the look of the shoes and was caught up in it, flipping through the pages and seeing the different styles,” Dacosta recalls. Then, he started sketching the pieces. The Marcus Garvey Technical High School graduate was intent on fine tuning his skills and ensured that he learnt about designing and making shoes, so he did a year-and-ahalf fashion designing certification course at Garmex HEART Academy. This is something that he believes impacted his work today.
It taught him how to “delve deeper and learn more about designing, from taking your idea from a sketch, to pattern making, to the actual finished product itself”.
LIVING HIS DREAM
He is now living his dream as an entrepreneur and taking his time to build his clientele, who have even become repeat customers. He now makes customised sandals, oxfords, boots, and derbies from leather, leatherette and storebought fabrics to give added structure to his
designs from his work base in Eltham Park, St Catherine. He has already found himself on the local runway as he debuted his recent line at Style Week in May of 2018 in collaboration with womenswear and of 2018 in designer Oshane Hinds’ Horn Edge line. But this is nothing new to him as he did the same last year and collaborated with other designers, which included Mission Catwalk reality TV winner Gregory
Williams.
Here are just a few of his designs.
Photographer: Pierre Marsh @fruithimself
Footwear by Miguel
Dacosta @daccostafootwear557
Wardrobe by Horn Edge
Designs @hornedge_designs
Books provided by
Bookophilia 92 Hope Road
Kingston @bookophilia
Saint International Models
Oshane Flemmings, Nikaha
Osbourne and Jahmar
Thompson
Shot on location at Eden
Gardens Wellness Resort & Spa