March 4, 2019
Yohei Fukuda never ceases to amaze not only with elegant shoes, amazing craftsmanship but now even in shoe design where he takes it to the next level with this cross between a monkstrap and a button shoe. I have never seen anything quite like it. It has 3 things going on. The cut/shape of a French style 1/2 eyelet derby but then has that sweeping like monkstrap bit of leather while topping it all off […]
December 3, 2017
As many of you may know, J.FitzPatrick Footwear is in the midst of expanding to the US market, specifically in NYC. This expansion, however, does not happen overnight and is a few months from being complete. In the meanwhile, as I am now based here in the Big City, I figured I would at least start by getting my presence felt and thanks to my good friend Jake Mueser of J.Mueser Bespoke, I have […]
August 25, 2017
After having had a successful launch to our MTO program, and giving a good year of make-ups, we at J.FitzPatrick Footwear felt that it was finally time to offer a deal on our MTO program by knocking off 50% of the MTO fee from now until the end of Sept. Our MTO program is very flexible and there are many things that you can do within in, short of copying other models and/or creating a […]
June 20, 2017
It’s been a long time coming but the time is here and J.FitzPatrick Footwear will soon again be shown in the USA, namely in the beautiful city of New York as the first showing, this coming June 28th and 29th. As many of you know, I have made a big move to NYC as my new permanent base and will plan to replicate in NYC what we have in London. Our first move towards that […]
January 27, 2017
Dear All, We have had a great start to 2017 and thank you for your continued support. We wanted to let you know that we are entering the final stages of our January Sale which will end on 31st Jan. Now is your chance before it’s too late, to pick up many of the models that we intend to get rid of and that won’t be coming back at a heavily discounted price! Also, […]
December 30, 2016
Discovering new shoemakers for me is like a kid discovering a new candy. Although I have known about Igor Suhenko for awhile now, I think that I have only shared his work once in the last few years so thought that I would revisit him. What I love about discovering shoemakers from countries outside of the stereotypical ones that we think of for most bespoke shoemakers is that they often have very different stylistic designs. […]
October 14, 2016
Dear Readers, We have just launched our 2nd round of our A/W16 stock, which includes a new Button Shoe model, the Aurora, and two new colorways to some existing models. 1. The Brand New Button Shoe – The Aurora. We wanted to try and design a button shoe that was unlike any other. One of my employee’s, Stacey, actually had the brilliant idea to somehow make the button enclosure on a saddle design. This […]
May 6, 2016
They say that style is always revisited from time past. Well, I am unsure if they actually wore button shoes in the Victorian era but with the success of the button boot that they did wear, we couldn’t help but give it a go and try to bring back some more of that Victorian elegance to modern day society. While the button boot was all about contrast, I thought that we would switch it up […]
June 11, 2015
I am bit pressed for time today as it is my first full day in NYC and I need to get ready to head downtown to check on my shoes and do my rounds of visits to the various shops that I like. But I thought that many of you would appreciate these lovely photographs by Skoaktiebolaget of their various Enzo Bonafe MTO’s. I particularly like the brown suede adelaide brogue with scarlet red lining. […]
May 18, 2015
It is always interesting to see how a shoemaker will branch out from where they came and how their making will be different to that of the parent company (the one that taught them). The best example is Japanese shoemakers that come to Europe, learn in England or Italy and then go back to Japan and take what they learned, building upon it to make it even better. This is precisely what Nicholas Templeman seems to […]
