12 Sep: Times of India. By Nicole Suares. Shoe designer Edwin Pinto lets art and fashion mingle freely when he designs his dreamy footwear. He started off as a tailor and when he first told his parents, who came from a family of doctors, that he wanted to stitch clothes they freaked out.What drives him to experiment with new ideas? Edwin elucidates, "Perhaps, it was my early childhood days growing up in Africa. For the first 10 years, I didn't go to school. For text, 688 words and photograph check the Photo Gallery at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/
Edwin Pinto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was born in Singida, Tanzania, the son of Dr Luino and Aurea Pinto and moved to Goa in 1968. Eddie Fernandes
