Marina Larroude left a fashion editor and retail buying career to start the label with her husband, and the operating idea was to make shoes closer to when people actually want them. That sounds like supply chain trivia until you notice how the range is built, with fewer styles carried further into repeat colourways rather than a huge seasonal drop. The Dolly is the house shape, a chunky platform that reads far more considered than it looks. Milan is the sport sandal, which is a category the brand entered later and handled better than expected.

Larroude sandals lean hard into natural texture, with raffia in rainbow and black and a cork footbed version of the Dolly Verona. Raffia is a genuinely difficult material to build a shoe around because it frays and holds shape poorly, and the fact that these hold their line is the actual craft story. The low platform on the Verona is the one that makes the shoes wearable for a full day rather than a photograph. Milan Sport in black raffia is the quiet one, and it is probably the most versatile thing in the range.

Raffia is a summer material and pretending otherwise leads to disappointment in October, so buy these for what they are. The Dolly Verona low platform is the shape to start with because it carries height without the instability of a true platform. Rainbow raffia is genuinely fun and will be the pair you remember, while the black version is the pair you will wear four times as often. Cork is the sleeper option, lighter than it looks and it moulds slightly to a foot over a season. If you take one thing away, it is that this house does texture better than it does hardware, so choose the pair where the material is the whole design and skip anything trying to do both.