Meet the designer who is turning Maasai sandals and other African footwear into high fashion

Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning fashion critic, is covering New York Fashion Week. Read her stories on Style Blog and follow her on Twitter: @robingivhan.Aurora James was raised in a small town near Toronto and spent much of her youth reading National Geographic. "We always had a subscription," she says. "It was big entertainment for me growing up." Her mother was not the glamorous sort who wore Vogue-approved stilettos and slingbacks; instead, she had a prodigious collectio...