An Italian shoe brand founded in 1908, one of the oldest I know in Italy. It sells around the world yet no shoes enthusiast talks about. This is a strange and common phenomenon happening to many Italian brands. Post Views: 1,547
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Founded in 1959, and the current owner are the third generation of the family, Giacometti brothers. If you recognize or are familiar with shoe brands in Japan, Fratelli Giacometti is also well received as classic line. While Walles Club focuses on exotic leathers and Marmolada from the same company makes sporting boots. Post Views: 1,403
Most people know Bowen this French brand maybe from another name, the famous English shoemaker Alfred Sargent. Bowen only focuses the local market and almost occupied more than 90% production capacity of Alfred Sargent. Very few French shoe brands use English shoemaker. But the forever push on cost, Alfred Sargent went out of business. Now,
Yearn Shoemaker is more known in China with the name SLIMSHOES. Post Views: 1,471
The Chinese is 青山闲居, the founder and master shoemaker, Mr. WANG Zhencheng showed his skills on this pair of Shell Cordovan Seamless Wholecut Oxfords. The shoes are almost fully handmade with handwelted and handstitched for 250 USD, and leathers are from great tanneries such as Ilcea Italy and Weinheimer Germany. Post Views: 1,727
Prince’s Brogue is the brand operated by the second prize and fourth prize in the first China Shoemaking Championship, who are father and son. Their shoes have a very significant characteristics, every model is made on Norwegese stitches. Their shoes are not bad, but business wise it is very weak. Let us review the models
申明：非软文，未收受任何形式的好处。 这其实是个款式知多少的系列文章之一，但是有不少的背景知识可以给大家说一下。 首先，Thom Wills我谈论得极少，可能到目前为止，就只有一篇总结它皮鞋款式的文章。当时给我的感觉是，鞋子设计是相对正统保守的，但是款式太多，求多不求精。工艺不差，最起码看起来是不差的，价格自然是这个品牌成为中国缝制鞋当之无愧的霸主的杀手锏，不再赘诉。最后呢，基本也算是半只脚从经典男鞋/男装领域跨入了时尚领域，比如一些明星的代言（这个代言可能要打个引号），更加是脱离了我覆盖的领域。 Post Views: 2,624
Not the most famous shoemaker (RTW) in England, but undoubtedly with longest history, Joseph Tricker founded Tricker’s in 1829. Post Views: 2,632
If we confine our discussion in Ready to Wear, which brand is the top one in France? Most will say Berluti. No doubt its reputation and price support this position, however, LVMH gradually moves Berluti into a full range high fashion designer brand, not a classic shoemaker anymore. Post Views: 2,876
Arguable the best classic menswear boutique in Norway, if not the whole Nordic region. Besides the super high end brands it carries, private label is also present. This kind of practice is not uncommon, the boutique tracks the best seller and find production line to copy the design to boost its own profitability. But there