When Paolo Scafora and Antonio Meccariello are not in the radar in the industry, Italian shoes were known by Santoni, a.testoni, Bontoni and Silvano Lattanzi, Di Bianco was one to mention. Nowadays, new players are more talked about, but Di Bianco still lives well in US market. Di Bianco is owned by Sutor Mantelassi which
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Cordwainer is mistaken as Cobbler frequently, but Cobbler is to repair but Cordwainer is the shoemaker. Cordwainer seems an English word, but it origins in 13th century when the leather for making shoes were from Cordoba, Spain. Post Views: 3,190
The most prestigious brand from Spain, Norman Vilalta. It is the highest end in Spain is quite obvious that Norman Vilalta is a world renowned bespoke shoemaker graduated from Stefano Bemer studio, as a result his Ready to Wear is great. Post Views: 3,278
The all recognized most expensive shoes in the world. Post Views: 3,192
Union Royal released a child brand in 2003, the selling point is Bolognese Goodyear construction. I know it may puzzle a lot of people, because basically Bolognese construction is a fork of Blake stitches, and the difference is the upper is circled up till the bottom. Plus Goodyear, which means the middle sole is stitched
The name looks like American, but it is Japanese. Also sounds like a casual boot brand, and the fact is it only makes dress shoes, price starts from 750 USD. Post Views: 2,592
Union Imperial is a brand, and its company is Union Royal, one of the big three Japanese shoe factories, the other two are 2nd Royal Highland and Scotch Grain. Post Views: 1,863
Previously Oriental this Japanese preimum brand has been introduced, and Origio is the entry level of this company released in 2017. Post Views: 1,414
I used to think in Japan this over mature market, no space for new brand, but it is wrong, and Oriental is a good example. Oriental is quite complex, on one hand, it owns a factory and makes private labels for other Japanese brands, on the other hand, it runs a select shoe shop, in
I have seen many Swedish select shoe shops and today we have a look at its neighbor, Norwey, the very respected one, Skomaker Dagestad. It is a boutique with many brands, not only shoes and its carryings are very high end such as Edward Green and Foster & Son. Post Views: 1,225