Qingdao is not the consumption center city of classic men’s wear, but the practitioners in Qingdao represent the peak of classic men’s wear in China today.
Zhang Xiao, the first independent tailor in China.
Jiang Daoyuan’s devotion to welted shoes can impress everyone.
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Badia is a Chinese Shoemaker from Qingdao city, Shandong province. After studying and working in Stefano Bemer studio in Italy for three years, its founder JIANG Daoyuan returned to China and founded this brand.
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Speaking of the Badia, the first thing that everyone thinks of is the founder, JIANG Daoyuan. But Badia is a team and a richer theme, and today’s protagonist, Xiyun, is a member of Badia.
Let’s learn her story together.
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After An Interview with JIANG Daoyuan was published, many readers asked, how good is this brand of shoes? I immediately got a pair and took a look with everyone.
Let us go.
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I’m afraid that many people are not familiar with this name, but his experience in shoemaking, among domestic shoemakers, is very orthodox and academic. As a Stefano Bemer studio trainee, after returning to China, JIANG Daoyuan became a bespoke shoemaker and later, created his own shoe brand Badia.
As curious as everyone is about this low-key shoemaker and the philosophy of his ready-to-wear brand, Badia, I had the pleasure of interviewing him.
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I was at Roiluxe Shanghai over the weekend filming TikTok and overheard the little objects Badia had set up over there.
While I knew earlier that Badia had periodic Trunk Shows that offered MTO services, I didn’t realise that this MTO seemed to go a step further.
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As a brand, Badia is becoming more and more mature. The brand that used to be supported by JIANG Daoyuan alone now has a team. I am very happy to see that no matter it is in terms of products, positioning, or business mode, they have gone their own way.
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I just summarized Badia’s collection of styles a few days ago, which surprised me. Because Badia has always been a Goodyear brand in my impression, why was it that most of them were Blake construction? With this question, I consulted JIANG Daoyuan, it turned out that Badia is working on product layout, and shoes in different directions will use different constructions. Blake focuses on lightweight shoes, such as the acclaimed horseshoe buckle Loafer, while the more classic styles will use handwelted construction. If the actual meaning of handwelting is that the shoe can be resoled more times, then the classic and exquisite models deserve it more which is logical.
Let’s take a look at this Chelsea boot from handwelted collection.
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The biggest thing about Badia is that the shoes are like a person. Who? The brand soul, Jiang Daoyuan.
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