Singapore Super Trunk Show 2026

We are very pleased to invite you all to the first Singapore Super Trunk Show. An event that will gather no less than 19 shoe and menswear brands that will exhibit, host the first Asian Championships of Shoe Shining, shoe care workshops, live shoemaking, several stage sessions, and much more. Here’s all info about the event.

 

Location: Warehouse on River Promenade, 5 Jiak Kim Street, Singapore

Date: Saturday January 31 2026

Schedule for the day

11.00am-6.30pm Trunk show open for the public, FREE OF CHARGE AND NO REGISTRATION NEEDED. Exhibitions with:
Platinum:
– Bridlen (footwear, India)
– Saphir (shoe care, France)

Gold: 
– CNES (footwear, Vietnam / Singapore)
– Sanyo Yamacho (footwear, Japan)

Silver: 
– Camps de Luca (clothes, France)
– Common Suits (clothes, Singapore)
– Fumu (footwear, Singapore)
– Ichigo Ichie (footwear, Vietnam / Japan)
– Idé Homme (socks, Japan)

– Johnny Works (footwear, China)
– Oct Tenth (footwear, China)
– Renav Goods (footwear, Indonesia)
– Shinki Hikaku (leather and leather goods, Japan)
– Twinkima.G (footwear, China)

– The Compendium (clothes, Malaysia)
– The Last Shoemaker (footwear, UK / Thailand)
– Winson (footwear, Indonesia)
– Yearn (footwear, China)
– Yeossal (footwear and clothes, Singapore)

Old Moon Spirits will serve drinks during the day

On display are also the top three shoes in the World Championships of Shoemaking 2025, and winner in the World Championships of Shoe Patina.

11.00am-6.30pm (on and off shorter periods) Live shoemaking with Tor Cheng Yao of Fumu, at their exhibition space

 

Stage programme

12.00-12.15pm – How to polish shoes using fingers, with Ash Samsudin, Metiers Sol (small stage area)

1.00-1.15pm – How a shoe factory work, with Affan Mohammed, Bridlen (small stage area)

1.15-2.00pm – Saphir Shoe Shine Masterclass with Ash Samsudin, hosted by Saphir, session 1 (workshop area)

2.00-2.15pm – How to do a quick mirror shine, with Yuya Hasegawa, Brift-H, first world champion of shoe shining (small stage area)

2.15-3.00pm – Saphir Shoe Shine Masterclass with Ash Samsudin, hosted by Saphir, session 2 (workshop area)

3.00-3.30pm – Final of the Asian Championships in Shoe Shining in cooperation with Saphir and Bridlen, in the prize pool shoes from Bridlen, Saphir shoe care kit, medals and 1,000 SGD (800 USD)  (More info in qualification post here) (large stage area)

4.00-4.15pm – Panel talk about Asian quality shoes, with Alan Lee of CNES and Emil Rahmana Putra of Winson / Midas.

4.15-5.00pm – Saphir Shoe Shine Masterclass with Ash Samsudin, session 3 (workshop area)

 

6.30pm Event closes.

 

Here’s the Facebook event page where you’ll get all the latest updates. We really appreciate any help with spreading the word about the event! The hashtag used before, during and after the event in social media is #supertrunk.

The Super Trunk Show events finally reaches Asia. This after starting off in Stockholm, Sweden, back in 2014 and then been held in Amsterdam, London and New York (of those we still do the big ones in London and New York), and also inspired a number of other great similar type of events. The core of a super trunk show is the exhibition with shoe, shoe care and menswear brands from around the globe being gathered, most of which are not easily available on the location, but often with some local representation as well. A bit like a small trade fair in a way, but open for the public, for the end consumer. To this we’ve then always had one or several exciting contests, always in shoe shining and in cases in shoemaking and shoe patina (nowadays only in London), plus a mix of other happenings on stage or around the exhibition space. They’ve also become great meeting places for people of the industry and shoe interested.

It’s a pleasure to now host the first Singapore Super Trunk Show, an event organised by Jesper Ingevaldsson of Shoegazing, Justin FitzPatrick of The Shoe Snob blog and Kirby Allison. In Singapore we’ve also had invaluable assistance by the locals of CNES Singapore. Asia is one of the regions we’re making quality footwear has boomed the most the past decade, both dress shoes and more rugged boots, and we’ve also seen a bunch of great new tailoring firms and other menswear related companies. Quality price ratio is very high, in general. Focus has been on gathering Asian companies here, but we also have a few European ones.

The event takes place at the Warehouse on River Promenade, on 5 Jiak Kim Street in central Singapore. It’s a great one floor event space which has a restaurant and a serviced apartments in the same buildings. We have one large exhibition space which you enter into, and if you continue in we’ll have a sort of lounge area where Old Moon Spirits will serve free Japanese Shochu and Awamori both on the rocks and in cocktails, and That One Coffee will sell coffee and tea. Then in the back we have two rooms connected to each other, we’re we’ll have a small stage area with a series of shorter presentations / talks around various shoe topics every full hour (see above), and in the inner room Saphir together with Ash Samsudin of Metiers Sol will host shoe care workshops throughout the day were visitors can take care of their own shoes with products from Saphir, and get help and guidance from Ash. More info on this and registration here.

The main stage happening is the first Asian Championships of Shoe Shining, organised in collaboration with Saphir and Bridlen, at 15.00 in the afternoon. For this we will convert the lounge area in the main room into a stage area, so that we can handle a potentially bigger crowd. Three finalists who have made it through the qualifications will have a Bridlen plain cap toe oxford in medium brown, a can of Saphir Medaille d’Or Pate de Lux and one can of Mirror Gloss, water, brush and polishing cloth, and then in just 20 minutes shine the shoe as lovely as possible. In the prize pool is the shoes shined, shoe care products, medals and 800 USD (1,000 SGD), given by Saphir. This will be live streamed on Shogazing’s YouTube channel, and later a more proper coverage of the contest will be up on Kirby Allison’s YouTube. The finalists will be announced shortly.

Please follow the Facebook page for the event here where you’ll get all the latest updates, let us know you plan to attend and please help spread the word. We really hope the first Singapore super trunk will gather lots of people interested in quality men’s footwear and clothes from both near and far.

Mark your calendars, book your flights and read about the exhibitors below to start plan your purchase. Hope to see many of you in Singapore on January 31!

Below info about all the companies that will exhibit.

 

Platinum sponsors

Saphir

Saphir has long been regarded as a benchmark in premium shoe care. The story began in 1925 with the introduction of a shoe cream whose original formula is still in use today. Since then, the range has steadily grown into one of the most comprehensive selections on the market. The Medaille d’Or line, in particular, has become the standard against which all other shoe care brands are measured.

With Saphir, you not only achieve excellent results in your shoe care routine – the products are also known for being straightforward and pleasant to work with. Every product in the Medaille d’Or collection is made exclusively from natural ingredients such as beeswax, carnauba wax, essence of turpentine, lanolin, mink oil, neatsfoot oil, and various vegetal ingredients. If you still haven’t tried Saphir’s products, you haven’t experienced what shoe care can be. Read more about Saphir in this article covering a visit to their factory.

 

Bridlen

Bridlen’s progress in recent years has been remarkable; from operating in relative obscurity, they have grown into a significant presence within the welted-shoe segment, with the super trunk shows playing a notable role in that rise. Bridlen has helped place India firmly on the global map for quality welted footwear, offering well-constructed shoes made from fine materials at a highly competitive price level.

Bridlen’s factory has been in operation for nearly four decades. The company is recognised for producing Goodyear-welted shoes where the welt is stitched directly onto a thick full-leather insole – the traditional method that avoids the use of gemming (a canvas rib attached to the insole). Their uppers are also made in a manner more akin to bespoke shoemaking, including the use of genuine leather backings. Prices for their welted models begin at an impressive 350 SGD (270 USD). You can learn more about Bridlen in this review..

 

 

Gold sponsors

CNES

CNES is among the largest producers of Goodyear-welted footwear in Vietnam. The brand offers an extensive assortment, ranging from sleek patinated styles to more rugged workwear-inspired boots, all while maintaining a distinct identity in their designs. They have been building a strong presence across several Asian markets, gathering customers who have them as the go to brand for most of their shoe needs. Their collection includes shoes made with Blake, Goodyear, hand-welted, and Norvegese constructions. Pricing for the Goodyear-welted models begins at around 400 SGD (300 USD), with the hand-welted and Norvegese options positioned somewhat higher.

 

Sanyo Yamacho

Sanyo Yamacho is a Japanese brand founded in 2001, and is considered one of the finer RTW brands in the country. They make really well-finished Goodyear welted shoes built entirely in Japan, with a large amount of elegant models in their range. Their regular welted models starts at about 800 SGD (600 USD), they then have shoes at even higher standard with top range being made at a really high level with for example seamless wholecuts. Sanyo Yamacho is a really great example of fine Japanese craftsmanship for those who appreciate skilled making and well-balanced designs. The brand also offers some more basic dress shoes and sneakers at a lower price point.

 

 

Silver sponsors

Camps de Luca

Camps de Luca is one of the big, classic French tailoring firms, founded in 1969 by Joseph Camps and Mario de Luca. The French based bespoke tailor makes some absolute world-class handmade suits and other tailored garments. The tailor’s house style has a French foundation with Italian and Spanish influences, which is highly appreciated by many.

 

Common Suits

Common Suits is a Singapore-based modern bespoke tailoring firm that in a relatively short time has made waves. They offer sharp tailoring at an affordable pricing, with half canvas suits in European fabrics starting at 1,700 SGD (1,300 USD). An ambitious firm, that recently became the first Singapore tailor to participate in the Milano su Misura – Trofeo Arbiter contest.

 

Fumu

Fumu is a Singapore based bespoke shoemaker, who recently also introduced a handmade sneakers range. The sneakers are basically built like a hand welted bespoke shoe with proper thick insole and leather stiffeners etc except the welt, and then the upper is sidewall stitched to a Lactae Hevea cup sole. Sneakers cost 800 SGD (600 USD).

During the day on and off Tor Cheng Yao of Fumu will also showcase handmade shoemaking at their exhibition space, hopefully interesting to see for many.

 

Ichigo Ichie

Ichigo Ichie is the brand of Vietnamese shoemaker Lee Trung, who spent many years in Japan learning shoemaking. What began there as an effort to offer reasonably priced bespoke and MTO shoes eventually evolved. Today, Trung oversees a small team of skilled makers in Vietnam who produce the brand’s RTW collection and MTO. RTW prices start at just 650 SGD (500 USD).

 

Idé Homme

Idé Homme is one of the finest sock manufacturers in Japan, known for it’s incredibly fine and comfortable materials. They have one range of more traditional dress socks and a range of casual five finger socks. Material selection range from premium Egyptian cotton to super fine cashmere and silk mixes with an incredible lustre and colour depth.

 

Johnny Works

Johnny Works is a Chinese independent workshop founded in 2014, specialised in crafting rugged and heritage-style boots. They offer both Goodyear welted, Stitchdown and hand welted constructions, with upper leathers from among others Maryam, Charles F. Stead and Horween. Lots of nice interpretations of classic boot styles. Prices on Goodyear boots starts at 400 SGD (300 USD).

 

Oct Tenth

Oct. Tenth a Chinese brand founded by the couple Xibao and Chu in 2020, who had long experience in the shoemaking trade. The shoes are made of imported premium leathers, hand welted with handmade sole stitching at the waist area as base, and refined finishing, making them look way more expensive than they are. Prices from 850 SGD (750 USD).

 

Renav Goods

Renav Goods is an Indonesian bootmaker that makes superbly crafted boots and rugged shoes. Founded in 2016, with styles like their service boots and plain toe derby, with several different construction methods, all fully handmade. Also has some cool leathers like bison and elk, as well as stuff from Horween, Maryam and Shinki. Prices start below 400 SGD (300 USD) for local leathers.

 

Shinki Hikaku

Japanese Shinki Hikaku is one of the world’s most famous Shell cordovan tanneries. Known for their superb quality, managing also lighter coloured shells in a great way. They also do a bunch of other horsehide leathers, really durable stuff that ages beautifully. Apart from showcasing their leathers they will also bring leather goods from the sibling company The Warmthcrafts-Manufacture, made of Shinki hides.

 

Twinkima.G

Twinkima.G  is a Chinese brand known for its sleek hand welted shoes with distinct ridge back bevelled waists and tapered heels. They have their own factory in Dongguan and are well-established domestically, now they have begun exploring international markets. The welted shoes often feature museum calf leathers with a lovely finish, priced around 900 SGD (700 USD).

 

The Compendium

The Compendium is bespoke tailor from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work with a soft, gentle Florentine silhouette, with lightly padded shoulders on the jackets. They are one of few tailors in Malaysia who do full canvas bespoke suits with individually made patterns, but they also have a more affordable MTM service. They also make for example safari jackets and custom ties and other accessories.

 

The Last Shoemaker

The Last Shoemaker is run by shoemaker Payson Muller, based in York, England, and Allan Donnelly, from Scotland but who lives in Bangkok in Thailand where he runs a workshop making handmade shoes. Their specialty is bespoke or MTO minimalist footwear, with more or less no heel, minimal arch support, and a very wide forefoot to make it possible for the toes to be fully spread.

 

Winson

Winson of Indonesia is founded by Emil Rahmana Putra, who impressively enough is self-trained to a large extent, yet have managed to create one of the most acclaimed Asian shoe brands. Makes fully handmade dress shoes, a true premium product of real top quality. Price for MTO starts around 1,300 SGD (1,000 USD). They will also show some workwear boots from the sibling brand Midas Bootmaker.

 

Yearn

Yearn, based in China, is known for its elegant footwear built on well-proportioned lasts and made from top-tier European leathers. Production takes place in their own factory in Chengdu, led by veteran factory manager Jie Zeng. The shoes are fully handmade – hand-lasted, hand-welted, and finished with handmade sole stitching – yet prices start at around 650 SGD (500 USD).

 

Yeossal

Yeossal is one of the most internationally well-known Singaporean menswear companies. They develop their own tailoring, clothing and handmade footwear, all that offer really excellent value for money and are really well-designed, and available to personalise to a large extent in several cases. In their store they also have some famous shoe and clothing brands from Japan and Europe.