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After ten years at Gaziano & Girling, Swedish bespoke shoemaker Daniel Wegan left the company this autumn to start his own brand. This spring, Catella Shoemaker is launched, where the reigning world champion in shoemaking can fully develop his vision of the perfect bespoke shoes.
The Hong Kong-Chinese brand Mori of Shoemakers, who in a very interesting way combines bespoke and factory production, is coming to Stockholm this weekend and London next week for trunk shows.
The Swedish brand Josefin Liljeqvist has developed the world’s first fully traceable shoes, where all leather parts can be traced back to the animal it comes from. The purpose is to raise awareness of animal rights and their well-being.
Next year, a new, comprehensive and very practical shoemaking education will start in the US, which will enable more people to easily get into the desired place in the shoe industry without having to piece together their own education.
A new Swedish based online store for welted shoes has seen the light of day – The Noble Shoe. Here they take over the baton from Skoaktiebolaget and sell mainly shoes from Portuguese Carlos Santos, and they also offer affordable Made to Measure in collaboration with Croatian Zeb Shoes.
The Swedish online store The Sabot is now launching its new, own brand Amblier, with Spanish-made Goodyear welted shoes in the midrange segment, where focus is on real classics.
Today the British premium brand Gaziano & Girling launched a brand new range: Classic. With more traditional last shapes and models and slightly less worked waists and other modifications, they step down a bit in price and open up for new customers.
Now it’s settled, the world’s largest free-trade agreement, which concerns 30 percent of world trade, between the EU and Japan. It will enter into force in two months, in February, and means that all customs duties are immediately removed on Japanese shoes sold in Europe, and stepped down the other way. Here I go through what it means for the shoe industry in each region.
Last year, the Swedish online store Skolyx launched its first own collection of Goodyear welted shoes in the budget segment, which consisted of a number of more dressy models. Now a new collection of more casual models is launched, which I intended to present closer here and also go more into how it was developed.
