Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread

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Good! Please continue your work, nutcracker. more Spigola... http://bespoke-makers.tumblr.com/tagged/Spigola-by-Koji-Suzuki

BespokeMakers, you have quite a collection of Spigola pics. If you don't mind, I'm posting this from your blog

Spigola by Koji Suzuki Bespoke Elephant Leather Double Monk Strap very nice

 

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Another Spigola Bespoke (with a lil elephant)

from BespokeMakers' tumbler

 

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HIROSHI ARAI MTO show

Trunk show starting tomorrow @ World Footwear Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (show ends at 4/30)

Hiroshi Arai is the director of MIYAGI KOGYO brand shoes. He launched this new MTO collection under his own name.
The selection looks good: 6 lasts, 22 designs, domestic and imported leathers (including Horween), and better yet, there's a nice selection of Japanese cordovan from Shinki Hikaku. The shoes are goodyear welted, made by Miyagi Kogyo.

Priced quite reasonably, starting from ¥43,050 JPY ($440 USD or so)

Cordovan by Shinki Hikaku

 

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MASAHITO FURUHATA Bespoke Shoes

Furuhata's shoes have soft rounded edges and slight volume, true to the classic Italian style of old Gatto and Messina (where he did his apprenticeship for 6 years. He started his own Bespoke operation in 2008). His big square toes look just like the old Gatto.

He was regularly seen on magazines (LAST, MEN'S EX etc...), but I just heard that he was hired by Marini, in Rome, and will be saying goodbye to Japan soon (and hence closing down his Bespoke operation)

 

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Have to say I much prefer square toes to chisel toes...

 

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To those fancy more pictures and separate sources, here is the blog from Salon (JP)

http://shoemaking.blog113.fc2.com/

There are lots of pictures to get any shoe lover serious headache.

 

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To those fancy more pictures and separate sources, here is the blog from Salon (JP)

http://shoemaking.blog113.fc2.com/

There are lots of pictures to get any shoe lover serious headache.

thanks! looks like the blog went defunct a while ago, but quite a collection of pics there.
though I find some of the owners' tastes questionable....

 

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A fun piece of work by Atelier Grandpa in Kyoto

Fish?

skin stitched heel

 

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A fun piece of work by Atelier Grandpa in Kyoto





Fish?


skin stitched heel

Amazing! highly unusual but not the single example.


spigola in aquarium

 

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A fun piece of work by Atelier Grandpa in Kyoto

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Fish?

skin stitched heel

Sick.

 

[BespokeMakers]

il Quadrifoglio Trunk Show is next week, April 27- 29th 2013
at Concierge de World Footwear Gallery, Kioi-cho, Tokyo JAPAN

Bespoke shoes: starting from ¥210,000 JPY

 

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Met him a couple of times. He's quite a handsome chap

 

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Last is crazy nice.

 

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Last is crazy nice.

His new house last (bespoke) seems to have a smoother, less pronounced shape, compared to this older example (or maybe it's the angle)

 

[bamboo]

Spigola MTO. Sorry for my poor photographic technique.

I agree that they have nice collection of leather with texture.