27 May 2020

The Luminaries - A right pair: shoes fit for a lead role

From Nine To Noon, 11:30 am on 27 May 2020

Christchurch-based Flora Knight is a shoe maker whose boots are getting a run on Eleanor Catton's Sunday night TV One adaptation of her Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries.

Watch carefully next time lead character Anna Wetherell steps out on the set of 1800's Dunedin and Hokitika.

The costume team gave Flora the brief of designing Victorian-era boots, following a recommendation from her shoe making teacher Louise Clifton, who runs New Zealand's only shoe school, based in Newtown in Wellington. 

Louise and Flora share some trade secrets with Kathryn Ryan.