When Paolo Scafora and Antonio Meccariello are not in the radar in the industry, Italian shoes were known by Santoni, a.testoni, Bontoni and Silvano Lattanzi, Di Bianco was one to mention. Nowadays, new players are more talked about, but Di Bianco still lives well in US market. Di Bianco is owned by Sutor Mantelassi which
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Cordwainer is mistaken as Cobbler frequently, but Cobbler is to repair but Cordwainer is the shoemaker. Cordwainer seems an English word, but it origins in 13th century when the leather for making shoes were from Cordoba, Spain. Post Views: 3,625
前方高能预警，这是我正装皮鞋深刻造诣的终极体现，看完这篇，我其他写皮鞋的文章都不用看了，因为黄山归来不看山。 Post Views: 3,031
Everyone can tell this is a Japanese brand and it is, and the most magnificent one. Why? Otsuka was established in 1872 to import western dress shoes into Japan and commissioned Goodyear Welting machine in 1921, it is even the very first batch of shoe factories adopting Goodyear machines. Ever since its establishment, it is
The most prestigious brand from Spain, Norman Vilalta. It is the highest end in Spain is quite obvious that Norman Vilalta is a world renowned bespoke shoemaker graduated from Stefano Bemer studio, as a result his Ready to Wear is great. Post Views: 3,607
Union Royal released a child brand in 2003, the selling point is Bolognese Goodyear construction. I know it may puzzle a lot of people, because basically Bolognese construction is a fork of Blake stitches, and the difference is the upper is circled up till the bottom. Plus Goodyear, which means the middle sole is stitched
The name looks like American, but it is Japanese. Also sounds like a casual boot brand, and the fact is it only makes dress shoes, price starts from 750 USD. Post Views: 2,937
Ralph Lauren （不）合理价位：1250美元（紫标） Ralph Lauren的鞋子都是代工的，这个它们自己也毫不掩饰。 Polo线在2000年左右的时候，是Crockett & Jones代工的，然而到了2005年，就不是了，变成了意大利的Sesto Meucci。 Post Views: 3,832
Union Imperial is a brand, and its company is Union Royal, one of the big three Japanese shoe factories， the other two are 2nd Royal Highland and Scotch Grain. Post Views: 2,083
Previously Oriental this Japanese preimum brand has been introduced, and Origio is the entry level of this company released in 2017. Post Views: 1,589