Many people know that I work in an automotive company that has a supercar line. There was a meeting with a very senior executive called Skip Level, and he used a word that impressed me very much. He said the brand is selling Sensation. This word really struck me.
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These shoes weren’t really my specification because I asked Mr. Alexandru Maftei to make the shoes he wanted to make for me. The result is the last and craftsmanship are so satisfying, while the colour is a little bit out of control.
Let us check it out.
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An extremely artful pair of shoes, which can only be found in bespoke shoemaking. For this model, I think all the packaging is not important anymore, let us check the shoes directly.
Leopold I, (born June 9, 1640, Vienna—died May 5, 1705, Vienna), Holy Roman emperor during whose lengthy reign (1658–1705) Austria emerged from a series of struggles with the Turks and the French to become a great European power, in which monarchical absolutism and administrative centralism gained ascendancy.
I name this model with this great emperor due to its unmatchable originality which is absolutely unseen in the field.
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As a bespoke shoemaker with a very high market share in Central Europe, Maftei has a lot of customers in Austria and Germany, and many customers in Western Europe or Asia only learned about this brand when they arrived there, and then spread its reputation little by little.
Because of the markets and customers he serves, Maftei’s shoes, at their roots, retain the taste of traditional Austro-Hungarian shoes, strong, durable and rugged.
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If any Japanese dress shoes brand is most famous in China, it must be Regal. When I first started blogging, there was a message saying that these shoes you wrote were not as good as Regal. I am speechless.
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In shoe aficionados’ eyes, John Lobb or Edward Green may be the best English shoes, but in American’s eyes, or for most outsider of this circle, Church’s is the best.
The reasons are different, for American, Church’s is the first one they can see in the US as early as 1920s. And for fashion consumers, Church’s belongs to Prada.
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I have been following a mysterious Japanese shoemaker, When for years. The model caught my attention is this one.
Then I browsed all its offerings and I confess they are all beauties.
I cannot help but contacting the shoemaker behind, Kota Kobayashi to know his story.
Recently, I have been in intensive contact with this topic, and I feel that the transmission of this concept is more important than all the details of shoes.
If the topic is anything, it is that shoes should be matched with the whole.
You must roll your eyes when you hear this sentence. You don’t have to tell me. !
No rush, have you really considered everything I say next?
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