For who are not shoe enthusiasts, English brands and Italian brands, which is more famous? The answer is Italy as they entered China market much earlier and targeted more levels of customers, you cannot image how many people know Santoni and a.testoni in China. But there is a nickname many people heard of, THREE TONIS, we have called the two of them, who is the remaining one? Well, quite few people can tell.
It is Bontoni.
To be fair, although these brands have deviated from classic dress shoes and more to fashion domain, their shoemaking skills are not questionable. Especially a.testion which was founded in 1929 is the bedrock of great Italian shoemaking and many later brands have root there.
Recent years, Santoni develops the best because its focus on US market.
Bontoni didn’t follow, at least not too fast. Bontoni was not present in US market untill end of 1990s, and the volume is small.
The quality of Bontoni is higher than the other two because it never wastes any energy to produce cheap shoes.
Price is around 1300 USD.
Let us look at its models.
Remark
No matter it is the aesthetics or shoemaking skills, Bontoni is top of the top. The two most iconic models are Brilitainia and Magnifico。