{"id":175,"date":"2014-05-08T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insider.utelier.com\/?post_type=features&#038;p=175"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T07:59:43","slug":"bespoke-shoemaker-john-lobb-set-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/features\/meet-the-maker\/bespoke-shoemaker-john-lobb-set-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bespoke Shoemaker John Lobb Set to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the UK&#8217;s most-respected bespoke\u00a0shoemakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnlobb.com\/en_us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Lobb<\/a>, has been producing shoes since the mid-19th Century. Now, this Northampton-based \u00a325m business is set to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Only a handful of British shoemakers continue to manufacture welted shoes to a traditional standard, and this one is no exception. However, the parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hermes.com\/ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herm\u00e8s<\/a>, has decided to up-scale their production of all welted shoes, which require their craftsmen to complete 190 bespoke steps.<\/p>\n<p>But how is it possible to grow a brand with a business that has been built around the traditional, labour intensive craft, while maintaining its bespoke reputation?<\/p>\n<p>Related reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/category\/features\/meet-the-maker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more stories and challenges of Makers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the next five years, John Lobb also plans to expand its product offering beyond welted shoes. The company already sell non-welted ready-to-wear shoes, as well as other leather accessories. Renaud Paul-Dauphin,\u00a0CEO of John Lobb, intends to double revenue coming from non-welted shoes and other accessories, making this 30 per cent of the business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessoffashion.com\/articles\/intelligence\/john-lobb-scaling-craft-based-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON BUSINESS OF FASHION<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most respected welted shoemakers John Lobb, has been producing shoes since the mid-19th Century. Now, this Northampton-based \u00a325m business is set to grow.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3918],"tags":[4073,4072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}