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Ruthie Davis, founder, designer, and owner of her eponymous footwear company (ruthiedavis.com), was featured in a Sept. 30 article, “Walk this Way, on Stiletto Heels,” in the Vineyard Gazette, the local newspaper of her Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., summer home. In 2014, she was the only footwear designer to be accepted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America; Ruthie also was named the 2014 Footwear Designer of the Year by the American Apparel & Footwear Association.