She's a Shoe-In

Heather Dermont has style, without a doubt. Just take a look at her Jimmy Choo snakeskin espadrille wedges.

“They’re not real snakeskin,” the Weston mom of two says. “I have a reptile phobia. I can’t do real snakeskin. These are stamped.” You’d never know it to look at them and the way they wind themselves around her tiny ankles.

Heather’s sophisticated style extends beyond her impeccable footwear to her impressively decorated home. “My mom did it,” she says. “She’s a designer. I helped a little, but it was mostly her.”

She is as modest as she is charming. After graduating from Georgetown with a degree in languages, Heather criss-crossed the country from New York to Los Angeles, working in fashion marketing and promotion, before settling in Weston with her family. She is now two classes shy of a degree in interior design. No wonder everything she touches seems to sparkle.

So where does she find the head-turning pieces she wears so well?  Before I can even finish the question, Heather tells me that Mitchell’s in Westport is her absolute favorite place to shop locally.

“They’re the nicest people. They go out of their way to help you, to find things for you,” she says. “And they’re extremely charitable, which is important to me.” She’s talking about the retailer’s work with Near and Far, a Fairfield-based non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the causes and effects of poverty in Fairfield County.

“Have you ever been to Lolita’s in Greenwich?” she asks me as she walks me to the door. I tell her I haven’t. “It’s the best Mexican place in Fairfield County. You have to go!  I’m going there with some girlfriends tonight. You should come.”

I should have gone. Maybe she would have let me borrow those Jimmy Choos.

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