Besnard is a heritage menswear brand dedicated to crafting timeless clothing of exceptional quality from Netherland. Founded by the current owner, Victor Besnard’s ancestor as a bespoke tailoring house, Victor revived it into a high quality and handmade ready-to-wear brand bringing soft Neapolitan tailoring to more classic menswear connoisseurs. It is a great honour to
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Kenjiro Kawashima is the third place in 2022 shoemaking championship and many shoe enthusiasts know his name long before this contest as he worked with famed bespoke shoemaker Norman Vilalta for some time. Not many know that a big portion of astonishing and breath taking shoes presented by NormanVilalta was designed by Mr. Kawashima. We
Grant Stone is a US welted shoe brand which has gained great reputation in the community and been praised by US consumers. This reputation did not come easily as the shoes are made in China (the city Xiamen in Southeast China) and targeted US customers and the brand never hid this information and even promoted
India is not normally mentioned when we are talking about classic dress shoes. The reason is manyfold such as the climate, the history and the economic condition. So it is amazing to see a great brand, Bridlen entering our radar. The shoes look very quality and promising and the price is also very competitive as
Norman Vilalta is a famous bespoke shoemaker based in Barcelona. His career turn is truly amazing that he switched lane from a lawyer to a shoemaker at the age of 30! He went to Florence from Argentina where he was raised and studied under Stefano Bemer, where he befriended with Justin FitzPatrick. Later he settled
Steven Hitchcock is regarded the best cutter in the UK by some most tasteful bespoke tailoring connoisseurs around the world. He had followed his father’s step working in Anderson & Sheppard for many years, then opened its own atelier to offer “refined drape” to his fans at 58 Chiltern street. Post Views: 1,587
Nicholas Templeman may not be very familiar to many shoe aficionados, but his experience are very prestigious. He worked as lastmaker in John Lobb London for 7 years, and now takes his own adventure. As an independent bespoke shoemaker, he has gained great reputation around the world. It is a great honor to have an
As I promised, I will try my best to bring the great German bespoke shoemakers into the view of shoe aficionados. Vickermann & Stoya may be are the top ones coming to mind. I know most people outside of Germany may be not familiar with them, so, let us looking into their journey and offering.
Nowadays, people regards shoes as the normal and call cordwainers shoemakers, but when we look at John Lobb’s full name, and into the history, Bootmaker is the truly heritage. Post Views: 2,255
If you haven’t heard Patrick Frei this name, I bet you are not a qualified shoe aficionado, to say the least. As the champion of 2018 World Shoemaking Championship, Patrick Frei is one of the top level bespoke shoemakers in the world with everyone’s consent. His shoes are elegent yet aggressive, artful and inspiring, meticulous