Players who have just started to learn shoemaking are delighted and supportive of such young people and the fresh blood of this traditional handicraft industry.
The young man told me that he hoped his father would be proud of himself and agree with his career choice when he read this article.
This is by no means a glamorous job, but in the current industrialized society, it is an art close to people.
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Nickname Pepper Salt, WANG Yangkai is a very seasoned menswear enthusiast in China. I am a big fan of him.
I often look at his pictures of wearing a suit, so I want to ask him as a guide to tell you what it’s like to wear a suit.
I’ve interviewed many practitioners, but it’s the first time that I’ve interviewed consumers purely.
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I have been on a long-term business trip recently, so I chose shoes that are not afraid of continuous rain. In the last two weeks, I have been wearing these RayKowk shoes.
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RayKowk is the ulitmate price killer among Chinese shoemakers, and this is my first pair, and a very specially designed one.
Let us check together.
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Shiyi is a fully customized shop from Wuhan. Driven by Zhou Laoqi's strength, it has gained considerable attention on social media. No, I'm going to try it. This fabric was…
I met Fu Jie, the founder, in 2020, but I boasted on my blog that this is the best dress shoe blog in China, so all new brands must come to get my approval. Fu Jie, who just came back from England to start his own brand, was scared by my statement and really came to visit me.
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Liiyuan & Hiiwen is one the best bespoke tailoring house in China.
Its previous premise located at No. 123 Poyang Street, the shops with good architectural and literary atmosphere are loaded with Li Yuan’s seven-year business. Now it moved to an even more prestigous building and with Italian flavor.
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When I was younger, I didn’t like to wear leather shoes at all, and I wouldn’t wear a suit or anything. Simply put, I didn’t consider what a gentleman would wear at that time. The so-called England in my head may be self-cultivation, which may be no different from the Korean version.
When I gradually changed my style, I felt deeply ugly when I observed other people’s clothes, especially leather shoes. . . . And this ugliness is self-aware, because everyone else is like this. How can it be wrong?
I searched for “Dress Shoes for Man” on JD.COM, and then sorted them by sales volume, and watched me hit a few of them.
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There are two tastemakers in Chinese classic menswear community, one is George Wang, owner of BRIO Atelier, the other is Kieran Wang, founder of buyer’s shop Sartorial.
Kieran has created Sartorial, a top boutique men’s clothing buyer in China and even in the world, with his extraordinary taste and experience of Italian classic men’s clothing.
It’s a great honor to communicate with him and learn about Kieran’s story from becoming attached to classic men’s wear to the establishment and operation of Sartorial, as well as his unique views on classic men’s wear.
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In my brief years of following the bespoke shoe industry, many brands have disappeared, both internationally and domestically. Some vanished due to the passing of their founders, like Riccardo Bestetti;…