As a well-rooted shoe brand in London with a long history, it’s really embarrassing that its reputation is so dim. I can draw a conclusion that if you choose to go down, then your ending can be predicted when you take the first step. If you choose to go up, in the short term, your
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For shoes or clothes, there are two kinds of appreciation mentality. One is the aesthetic appreciation of the object itself. The other is the appreciation of fame. Post Views: 1,002
Speaking of several well-known welted shoe brands in China, they are Mattina, Yearn Shoemaker, Oct Tenth (if you are still used to calling it TGC, you can, but the proprietress should hope you remember her birthday) and Acme. In fact, Gulun and Cie shouldn’t be underestimated volume wise. So many famous brands, are there any
As a famous city in Central Europe with a long history, Vienna will never be short of celebrities or noble families. With such soil, there are naturally many craftsmen who serve these people. Post Views: 2,272
This is a half-dead American brand. Before Allen Edmonds and Alden became the benchmark of American dress shoes, they were called the four kings of American high-end dress shoes with Florsheim, Hanover and Footjoy. Post Views: 4,943
George Cleverley was born in a shoemaking family in London on August 10th, 1898. As a child, he sold shoelaces and shoe polish. He was stationed in London at the age of 15 and then joined a military shipyard in Calais, France. Post Views: 3,099
In the leather shoes industry in recent 20 years, there are some famous Italian shoemakers. In my humble opinion, I think there are three, Stefano Bemer, Roberto Ugolini and Riccardo Bestetti. Although Silvano Lattanzi and Paolo Scafora are equally prominent as brands, they are not talked about as shoemakers alone. Two of these three masters
I have interviewed many Japanese bespoke shoemakers and they all mentioned one place in the early stage of their career, that is WFG, World Footwear Gallery. World Footwear Gallery is a Japanese shoe shop. Let’s talk about the history of this shoe shop today. Post Views: 2,289
If you are not a vintage dress shoe collector, you probably never heard it. Hanover was once among the four kings of the United States dress shoes, the quality is absolutely not lost to their British counterparts, such as Edward Green and Church’s. Why not mention John Lobb and Gaziano & Girling? Because at the
I have known for a long time that the owner of this coffee shop featuring shoeshine. I had the oppoturnity to have conversation with Don in Nanjing and at the China Trunk Show in 2021. Even the runner-up in the shoeshine competition is a shoeshine professional in this store. Until last month, I was lucky