GIRLS LOVES SHOES is owned by sisters Zia and Dana Ziprin. They were raised in the Lower East Side when Ludlow and Orchard Streets were centers of apparel design before Soho. The two sisters grew up immersed in the education of Art, Fashion and Music.The Ziprin Sisters created their business in honor of their beloved Mother Joanne Ziprin.
Ms. Ziprin was a professional fashion model, accomplished Designer and Photographer. The girls remember dressing up in their mother’s extensive collection of Vintage clothing, shoes and accessories. Joanne Ziprin owned one of the first Vintage shops on the Lower East Side in the 60s....and enjoyed great success. Their father Lionel Ziprin is a lower east side resident, an esteemed kabalistic scholar, and renowned published poet and musician.
Zia began her career as a fashion photographer and lived and worked in Paris, and then began designing children’s wear when her daughter Aishling was born. She established her first boutique WOMB in 1994 which was located on West Broadway in Soho, the first avant garde children’s store in New
York. Zia was one of the first avatars of upscale designer apparel exclusively for children.

Zia carried European designer lines from Belgium and Paris, as well as her own children’s line which she designed and named Aishling. Her clients included Sofia Coppola, Ellen Barkin and Elle McPherson to name a few of the celebrities that frequented her establishment.

Everyone loved her children’s sophisticated designs so much that they asked for them in adult sizes, which inspired Zia to do a women’s line. Her first collection sold in Horn, beside Alexander McQueen at the store that MIGUEL ANDOVER opened. Her line at the time enjoyed exclusive residence in the avant garde designer store SEVEN and thereafter in many other innovative designer stores. Zia loves Shoes.

Zia ambitious to create a new specialized business collaborated with her sister Dana. GLS store in New York receives the majority of her shoes from her sister, who now resides in California. Together they opened
GIRLS LOVE SHOES and began selling and expanding the quickly growing VINTAGE SHOE ARCHIVE five years ago.
ZIA
They opened their first retail fashion shop in 2005 on the now up and coming Hester Street and Orchard, which neighbors the T shirt store ANYTHING and the CAFE BROWN. In 5 yrs they have amassed a collection of over 5000 vintage shoes.
DANA
The Archive which is a 1200 square foot RENTAL ARCHIVE is located at 85 HESTER STREET near Orchard, and it carries over 3000 pairs of shoes dating from the early 1800’s to the early 90s. Their clients are representative of the most prestigious shoe designers in the world, as well as costume designers for film, Broadway and television.
AISHLING ALEXIA
The boutique now referred to as GLS (Girls Love Shoes) which is located at 29 LUDLOW ST and HESTER is a lovely 500 square foot boutique that houses approximately 300 pairs of Vintage shoes ranging in era from 1930s to early 90s and ranges in sizes 4 to 12. The shop carries pumps, sandals, flats and boots in a rainbow of colors and styles that is enchanting to the shoe lovers heart. GLS carries Yves Saint Laurent, Maud Frizon, Andrea Pfister, Charles Jourdan, Christian Dior, among others as well as many offbeat 80’s labels such as Wild Pair, Candies and J. Renee.

With their upcoming vintage shoe book ELEVATED SOULS, and the launch of the much anticipated ZIA ZIPRIN SHOE LINE FOR FALL 2008, fashion-istas and shoe lovers worldwide can rejoice in a peda-spiritual enlightenment!