Anello & Davide  Anello & Davide (founded 1922) is a footwear company based in Covent Garden, London. It specialises in ballet shoes and theatrical footwear as well as making high quality fashion footwear for men and women. They are perhaps best known as the shoemakers responsible for the Beatle boot. Anello & Davide was founded in 1922 by Anello and Davide Gandolfi. They supplied bespoke dance shoes to London theatres and went on to provide shoes for films from the 1930s onwards. From the 1960s onwards the performance footwear that Anello & Davide sold became fashionable street wear. One particularly successful woman's style was the tap-dancer's shoe with a bar strap and ribbon bows. These shoes were able to be easily customised by the wearer. It was a mark of recognition for Anello & Davide's footwear when two of their designs were selected to complete two of the first three Dress Of The Year ensembles. They provided black leather kinky boots to accompany a Mary Quant ensemble in 1963, and a pair of shoes for a John Bates dress in 1965. Beatle boots originated at Anello & Davide in the early 1960s. When The Beatles first saw Chelsea boots with Cuban heels worn by a London band playing in Hamburg they were told where they were purchased from. They visited and purchased their own and they later commissioned their own variation. This modified version of a Chelsea boot is now known as a Beatles boot. After their visits to the shop they realised that they could commission any variety of clothes or shoes by simply requesting or providing specific material. Anello & Davide footwear is frequently mentioned in passing in theatrical memoirs and biographies of the mid-20th century London scene. The Beatle boots had a particular mystique, with Mark Feld (later Marc Bolan) purchasing his first pair from Anello & Davide after a London-wide search for the perfect footwear to complete his Mod outfit. Barbara Orbison, the widow of the singer Roy Orbison, remembered how when she met her future husband in 1968, his boots were always made by Anello & Davide. In addition to the Beatles, Anello & Davide list Marilyn Monroe, Peter Ustinov, Orson Welles, Margaret Rutherford, Jane Fonda and David Niven as having been amongst their celebrity customers. They have also provided footwear to stage musicals such as "Cats" and "Mamma Mia" and to films including the Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchises.