Many shoe brands have a premium collection which sits higher than its main offerings. The reason why they brought out this collection are many folds, such as Crockett & Jones made shoes for John Lobb with a higher specification and John Lobb bought Edward Green factory to make shoes themselves. Crockett & Jones cannot abandon
Category: Classic Menswear
Gulun is a Chinese brand which installs unbelievable specification for a wonderful price. It is 95% handmade with only upper stitched by sewing machine, handwelted and handstitched. I visited its workshop in Chongqing, southwest of China. Let us have a look of this pair. Post Views: 4,755
I always try to bring Chinese shoemaker to the front of more people, Oct Tenth is a brand which has gained a lot of momentum. I coincidentally had a crush with a model and luckily owns a piece of leather so this idea popped out. Let us have a check with the specification. Post Views:
Button boots are a very old kind of shoes in dress shoes field and its heyday was in Victorian era, till today, only a few brands still offering these models, and J.FitzPatrick is one of them, but more significantly with very modern elements but not too Avant Garde. Let us have a review of this
Sons of Henrey has the slogan Timeless Elegant and its models back up this concept by only presenting most classic ones. Today we unbox its monk offering, the only model, James. Post Views: 2,657
Altan Bottier is a French brand which focuses on patina and regarded as one of the pioneers after Berluti invented this skill. As most French middle range brands, Altan bottier does not make shoes, but only patina inhouse, and its shoes are made by Portuguese shoemaker Carlos Santos. Let us have review of this pair.
In this unboxing article, I have no interest to show case the box, shoe bag and so on, we just focus on this very interesting boots and its name. As a shoe enthusiast, I believe no one can put a poker face when he heard the word Lobb, because no matter you love its aesthetics
As the most traditional and conservative shoes, oxford has a relatively new model which was invented by Berluti, Wholecut. Wholecut is appreciated for its cleanliness and somehow fashion feeling. When I glance the archive of Carlos Santos, I found this seemingly no pattern model can still be playful, let us have a look together. Post
Maftei is a Austrian bespoke shoemaker known only by the most discerning shoe lovers in the world, but their share in Austria, Germany and Nordic region is quite big as it offers wonderful price Bespoke shoes with very traditional shoemaking skills. When I first met Maftei shoes on StyleForum, I feel its quality and craftsmanship
When talk about premium tanneries, most shoe lovers call the name of Annonay and Du Puy, both French tanneries belong to Hermes Group. The second tier (fame wise, not quality) would be the English ones, Charles F. Stead and J.F.Baker, the former one focuses on suede and kudu leather, and latter oak bark veg tanned