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Ep. 5 - Hiro Yanagimachi, about the Japanese bespoke shoe scene
Shoegazing Podcast
English - December 15, 2019 18:26 - 30 minutes - 27.8 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
Previous Episode: Ep. 4 - Tom Brone, Sons of Henrey, about starting a new shoe brand
Meet the famous shoemaker Hiro Yanagimachi, one of the pioneers of the new wave of Japanese bespoke shoemaking. When he started his business two decades ago there were only a few Japanese making bespoke shoes, today there’s more than 50 bespoke shoemakers in the country, now one of the leading scenes in the world. How this came to be is what we focused our discussion around.