"It was a shoe I had always dreamed of,” says Milan-based Veronese photographer Jon Bronx when talking about his Dr. Martens. The first model he bought was a 1461 lace-up - a model that symbolized his love for “punk, rock and indie music” that he listened to during high school and continues to listen to today. Let's take a tour with him in the Ticinese area, between the Colonne di San Lorenzo, a place that cradled him in his first years in Milan and that he still loves.

Michela d'Angelo remembers with extreme sharpness her first pair of Dr. Martens: «A pair of white 1460s, which are the classic high-top boot,» she says without hesitation, «to put on with black fishnet socks and t-shirts from various bands.» A passion for the brand that began with those white ankle boots and expanded to black and burgundy colorways.

Simone Furlan’s first pair of Dr. Martens was «the loafer, which I didn’t know that was from Dr. Martens. I bought a black pair with two tassels — just super British». But although his first model represents the brand’s most preppy product, the memories the brand’s items evoke for him involve London punks: «When I lived in London I used to go to Camden Town and there were a lot of stores selling Dr. Martens and a lot of punks wearing them». Given his celebrity status job, however, the aesthetic and historical associations overlap, touching on «the Hipsters and other subcultures who appropriated the shoe and then reinterpreted it in their own way.»