These niche luxuries are hard to come by

The fan said, "you deserve something better."

(text |Lin, authorized business model release)

Here to share some of my favorite brands and everyone. There are three reasons for my choice:

1., "niche": less special shop counters, less retail channels, less media exposure, 2. "luxury": top 3. I have

Lavabre Cadet

French gloves, handmade, custom services. Commonly used rare leather such as leather Tuan West (a small boar), ostrich skin etc..

In particular, the Lavabre Cadet is a small workshop for making kidskin gloves. Suede less valuable, very soft is made of gloves, English proverb so-called "lining such as gloves".

Lavabre Cadet gloves are lined with silk and cashmere.

Jean Rousseau

French leather goods. It specializes in small items such as watchband, pouch and so on.

In the Picaddilly Arcade in London, the store has custom workshops; the Madison Ave stores in New York are mainly finished products. Their custom service is unique: rare leather options are very plentiful. The Hongkong boutique The Armoury also acts as a proxy for Jean Rousseau's finished and customized orders.

Charvet

Paris has a long history of shirts shop. Many princes and dukes are their customers. Charvet is also in some great novels such as "remembrance of things past" and "Brideshead Revisited", referred to as "identity card".

Vendome headquarters customized service is a "white" there are hundreds of optional. The ready-made clothes are not hand made, the material used is excellent and the workmanship is very meticulous. The common style of serious and sober. Charvet's neckties are dazzling and expensive.

Simonnot Godard

French dress towel. Common linen towels, rare printed scarves. Elegant style, the four edge with hand sewing by hand, fine seemingly "WABI" flavor.

Chapal

French leather jacket, semi custom service. Chapal is very particular about materials, especially the soft and firm leather - the leather used in Chapal is made in its own factory.

The work is based on pilot jackets, the craft is far more than Aero, Good, Wear and other leather jacket enthusiasts touted brand, but the design is not rigid, exquisite, loyal to wartime original.

Camps de Luca

Custom made French suit. The lead tailor is de Luca family, father and son three people. A typical French style Roped shoulder, "fishmouth gorge" and so on.

Handmade meticulously, far beyond the Saville street and Italy, probably the most exquisite tailor in the world.

Alfred Dunhill "Tradition""

British leather goods accepted for customization. Dunhill stores are overlooking, but the "Tradition", its flagship leather line, is rare, sold only at several flagship stores in Dunhill.

"Tradition" leather Dunhill himself in the London workshop full Handmade (Dunhill and other leather goods are mostly outsourced to Italy factory), many works of traditional British big leather briefcase and suitcase such as materials, workmanship and materials are the climax - far better than similar products Swaine Adeney.

Begg

Scotland scarf. The most distinctive is the Arran series of cashmere scarf, surface with a plant "Scotland special teasel" (teasel) form a special brush, wave like pattern.

Edward Green

British leather shoes. Styles are more popular than similar grades in John, Lobb, and Gaziano Girling atmospheres.

Lock and Co

Britain has a long history of the hat shop, with many imperial shape, decorate many dignitaries. Still insist on making traditional caps.

Arnys

Menswear tailoring and tailoring stores in Paris have been sucked into their bespoke stores in Paris a few years ago by Berluti.

Although Arnys has ceased, but in the general election in France recently out of the limelight, because the media exposure Fran C OIS Fillon candidates had received interest group to send a Arnys custom suit.

Arnys men's clothing is a dissolute left bank wind ("Rive Gauche"), the use of materials, workmanship is very luxurious.

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