Mr. Hare took a little mosey over to his favorite French Shoe Porn Channel which he realised he had neglected to do so for a few weeks and was delighted to find they had had the builders in for a complete site refit, and had a whole new collection of shoe porn on show.
My recent discovery of the Leffot blog put me onto Pierre Corthay, shoe artisan de Paris and his marvelous creations. Here is a man with a desire to create honed at John Lobb then distilled at Berluti.
Corthay offer made to measure and ready to wear from their growing number of international stores and have even designed ranges for Yohji Yamamoto and Lanvin and Dior Haute Couture.
Have you ever seen anything this genius and French?
How can Mr.Hare put this? Mr. Hare has quite literally been salivating over the John Lobb shoe collection. John Lobb is a British bootmaking firm with a long shoe making tradition and royal warrants to boast.
In 1976, the company reknowned for it's made to measure service, was bought by luxury house, Hermes. In 1982, the first ready to wear collection was launched.
Despite being ready to wear, the production process for each pair of shoes is so involved the factory still only manage an output of around 100 pairs a day.
The original John Lobb London store in St. James Street has been described in Esquire as "The most beautiful shoe shop in the world." The store still operates a bespoke shoe service in the old tradition. This short film places you right there.
Click on the title of this post to see another interesting short film about the ready to wear shoe making process involved in the modern Hermes owned John Lobb company.
Just a man with a passion for shoes who feels let down by a shoe industry that doesn't really seem to care. Mine is not to give space to the negatives, but to champion the positives and find others who share my desire.
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