How many people have heard of the Zintala brand? There must be very few, but its other name heard by many people is Silvano Lattanzi which is ridiculed as the shoe king of cosmic because of its price, up to 7000 USD per pair, Ready To Wear, not bespoke.
Now many friends have bought Silvano Lattani through different channels, and the comments I have heard are still very satisfactory!
Silvano Lattánzi was born in 1950 in the village of Sant’Elpidio, a Mare in Italy’s Marche region, where his parents worked in a shoe factory.
Silvano Lattani entered the factory at the age of 11.
At the age of 21, in 1971 he founded his own company, Zintala.
His own explanation was that Zantala was an abbreviation for his last name, which I really didn’t see.
So first, figure out a relationship, Silvano Lattazi is a sub-brand of Zintala.
In 1974, Silvano Lattánzi presented 24 models at the Bologna Exhibition, the first time the Zintala company entered the public eye.
His innovation was that black and brown men’s shoes were the norm at the time, but Silvano Lattani mixed red, blue, yellow and green to make a very avant-garde design.
In the process of the company’s development, several product lines have appeared, and these product lines have also undergone changes in positioning.
For example, Silvano Lattanzi’s initial appearance was actually a custom business, represented the highest level of Zintala.
Gerardo Fossati, a name that almost no one has ever heard, is a Ready To Wear collection that uses Goodyear technology but was produced in limited quantities. Silvano Lattánzi is always handwelted.
Zintala is the lowest collection of the brand, mainly aimed at the younger group.
There was also a casual line, called Made in Marche, but it was quickly discarded.
With the premiumization of the brand, the Gerardo Fossati was abolished because it affected brand image.
The Zintala was retained as handwelted collection, while Silvano Latanzi remained custom-made.
Finally, as Zintala was not as well-known as Silvano Lattanzi, the latter become the company’s only brand and the brand that everyone talks about and even dreams of.
Many people dream of it simply because it is expensive, it brings illusion.
Because the quality of Silvano Lattanzi is not experienced by many people, there is no big data, only from the feedback of people around me, it is still praised.
Silvano Lattanzi is best known for its “burial shoes”.
On one hand, as a gimmick, on the other hand, it is this natural fermentation that allows the leather to show a very unique texture, which cannot be done at present.
Of course, this is considered to lengthen the time for leather shoe making, because this burial process takes 4 years.
After four years of burial, the wear resistance of vegetable tanned outsole is no longer enough, and the stitches are also a little rotten. It will be resoled, and then remade on the original last.
Silvano Lattanzi offers shoes made of shell cordovan and crocodile.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with Silvano Lattani is unpredictability, from high-quality classics to super ugly.
But the title of the cosmic shoe king, whether it is true or not, is indeed still desirable.
zintala is not an abbreviation of latanzi, but a reverse (incorrectly mirrored) spelling of the syllables:
la-tan-zi / zin-ta-la
Whoa, that is cool, thanks for the information.