Life Stories
USHA VANCE ! Sandals for a future First Lady!?
Usha Vance visits Melissinos Art in Athens to try on custom Galliko sandals in 2024, months before her husband J.D. Vance is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. It was a scorching, bustling June day in 2024. Customers streamed in and out of Melissinos Art – The Poet Sandal Maker, snapping up…
THE BIDENS!!! The Bidens are here!!!
Jill Biden and her daughter Ashley visit Pantelis Melissinos’ Athens shop to buy iconic Gladiator sandals during the 2011 Special Olympics. One sunny day during the Athens Special Olympics in 2011, Pantelis Melissinos entered his shop at 7 a.m., blissfully unaware that his quiet morning was about to spiral into a “Gladiator Sandal” extravaganza. As…