Its main installations are located in the St James area of Northampton, with an estimated production capacity of 5,000 pairs per week, 70% of which are exported all over the world. Besides products sold to resellers and individual customers, the company has retail stores in Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and UK.
I have no idea where the remaining 30% are made.
Not that these are in my current budget, but one doesn’t have to partake of a thing to know a bit about said thing.
Quality is subjective and, at least before LVMH took over the entire luxury world, a discerning eye could tell the difference between off the rack stuff and the real deal.
Depends on the type of shoe, and manufacturers. Louis Vuitton generally use better materials, but often the knock offs aren’t too much worse, similar with a lot of fashion shoes. That is excepting stuff like traditional dress shoes, which often do require a skilled craftsman to make. The most pronounced difference however, is generally in work boots. Expensive work boots are usually expensive because they use better materials and longer lasting designs. Knockoffs usually don’t last very long in comparison because they don’t use good materials and skim in areas that affect longevity.
It matters for everyday wear, too. Properly maintained, shoes can last generations. 9 was gifted Italian-made shoes from the 1940s from an elderly person. I gifted them to someone else after about 20 years.
Eta about 60 years between 2 of us, idk how long after that. I moved.
Good design isn’t cheap and in the real world, the “good shoes” just rip off the original design of the luxury ones
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I have no idea where the remaining 30% are made.
Not that these are in my current budget, but one doesn’t have to partake of a thing to know a bit about said thing.
But yeah they are usually not any worse in quality.
Quality is subjective and, at least before LVMH took over the entire luxury world, a discerning eye could tell the difference between off the rack stuff and the real deal.
Depends on the type of shoe, and manufacturers. Louis Vuitton generally use better materials, but often the knock offs aren’t too much worse, similar with a lot of fashion shoes. That is excepting stuff like traditional dress shoes, which often do require a skilled craftsman to make. The most pronounced difference however, is generally in work boots. Expensive work boots are usually expensive because they use better materials and longer lasting designs. Knockoffs usually don’t last very long in comparison because they don’t use good materials and skim in areas that affect longevity.
It matters for everyday wear, too. Properly maintained, shoes can last generations. 9 was gifted Italian-made shoes from the 1940s from an elderly person. I gifted them to someone else after about 20 years.
Eta about 60 years between 2 of us, idk how long after that. I moved.