Ep. 22 - Jean-Michel Casalonga, Berluti, about running a large bespoke workshop
Shoegazing Podcast
English - August 31, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 59 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFashion & Beauty Arts Business men's shoes menswear classic shoes shoegazing podcast goodyear welted shoes shoes shoegazing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode, number 22, will be featuring no other than Jean-Michel Casalonga. He is the main lastmaker and workshop manager of Berluti's Paris workshop. The French company Berluti is one of the bigger quality shoe brands in the world, nowadays more of a full fashion menswear brand , owned by the luxury conglomerate LVMH, with stores all around the world. Berluti has two workshops making their bespoke shoes, one in Paris above their original Rue Marbeuf store just next to the Champs Élysées, led by Jean-Michel, and one outside Angers in Western France, led by Anthony Delos.
Hear Jean-Michel Casalonga tell the interesting story of how he in a relatively unorthodox way managed to get his place at Berluti, hear about his love of lastmaking and how he wants to raise its status in France, about how it is to run a large bespoke workshop doing all in-house and the pros and cons of this set-up compared to the use of freelancers, and much, much more.