Sir Jeremy Hackett visits "Maison Corthay", London

This week "Maison Corthay", London, had a very special visitor!

Storemanager Francois Pourcher was very pleased to welcome "Mr Classic" himself, Sir Jeremy Hackett, accompanied by the well-known Japanese photographer and journalist, Shu Tomioka.

 

Sir Jeremy Hackett & Francois Pourcher

© Shu Tomioka

 

On his blog www.jeremyhackett.com, he says:

I don't know about you but the recent trend for coloured shoelaces had completely passed me by; keep up Jeremy! A friend of mine, who is a shoe nut, sent me a text telling me about this current fashion phenomenon that was sweeping Milan. How could I have missed this revolution in Men’s fashion?

A few days later, I was passing a new shoe shop in Motcomb St called Corthay, a French bespoke shoemaker. In the window was a pair of black shoes with red shoelaces. Immediately I purchased the laces from the very charming and knowledgeable shop manager.

It struck me that here was a way to freshen up a pair of sensible black shoes or add a touch of colour to a pair of broken down battered brown brogues for the cost of a pair of shoelaces...

La beauté du geste World Tour, second stop: London

All photos © Parisian Gentleman and Maison Corthay.

source: www.parisiangentleman.fr

"Pierre Corthay is a remarkable artisan/artist and gifted with contagious generosity. He is the voice of the movie, without being its subject, and conveys, with grace and wisdom, ideas that, far from being timeless, offer a very contemporary outlook on wonderful trades that have probably been given up on too early."

"The Master"

Pierre Corthay & Xavier de Royere

Xavier de Royere,  Hugo Jacomet & Tim Jefferies

"Based on the success of the movie and on the emotion it clearly inspires its audiences, Parisian Gentleman hase elected to screen “La Beauté du Geste” in Tokyo (Japan) on June 1st, before setting sail in Hong Kong, Macau, Seoul and New York prior to a public release in year end, possibly through television broadcast but most likely online or as a DVD including exclusive and bonus features."

On the right, Londons storemanager Francois Pourcher

On the right, Justin FitzPatrick (The Shoe Snob) with his business partner

On the right, Roald Dahl

The Shoe Snob visits Maison Corthay London

Justin Fitzpatrick, owner of the blog The Shoe Snob and currently working at Gieves and Hawkes Ltd in London, visited MaisonCothay in London a few weeks ago.

"Back in late July of 2011, I went to Paris for a quick business trip and happened to have enough time to pop into the Corthay shop in hopes to meet the legend himself, Mr. Pierre Corthay. Unfortunately, at the time, he was away and therefore was unable to meet him but did meet his brother, who is also very much involved in the company. While it was still a lovely visit, I knew that there would always be a 'next time' for the opportunity to meet the man himself! That being, on Tuesday of last week, I was scrolling through Facebook or something of that nature (maybe a blog) and happened to notice that Mr. Pierre Corthay was coming to London for a trunk show on the Friday of that week. I knew that this was my chance, not only to meet him but to finally check out their new shop in London that had just opened last December, of which I had been meaning to go in order to give you all some info! Therein lied my opportunity to kill two birds with one stone!".....

To view the full article visit: The Shoe Snob - Corthay visit !

Pierre Corthay and Justin "The Shoe Snob" FitzPatrick

Stora Manager Francois Pourcher and "Maitre Patineur" Thomas Kalflo

Miniature Model (size +/- 20 cm)

Maison Corthay London

The first pictures of the new Maison Corthay in London.

We wish the new storemanager, Francois Pourchez, a lot of succes!

The staff is more than happy to welcome you and we will post more new photo's shortly

Pierre proudly presents: Maison Corthay, London

In the same style as Rue Volney, Paris

Pierre Corthay opens first store in London today!

We are proud to present this picture of the upcoming first "Maison Corthay" in London (UK). Works are finished early next week and the opening was today.

More pictures will follow

24a Motcomb Street, London

Pierre liked the charming atmosphere of the Knightbridge/Belgravia area, and found a perfect location at 24a Motcomb Street, London.

We’re looking forward to more updates from the progression and hope to post a inside look of the store a soon as possible!


Check out Motcomb Street

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November 4th & 5th at Harrods: Special orders and bespoke

Pierre Corthay and some of the team will be in Harrods today and tomorrow. Pierre will be talking with customers and friends and will be taking special orders as well as bespoke orders.

A great opportunity to meet, in the Mens Shoe Department of the famous Knightbridge Store in London