Where Paris - 01 December 2017

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or three generations the Aubercy

family has been handcrafting

elegant shoes in the heart of

Paris. It all began back in 1935

when André and Renée Aubercy

set up shop near the French stock market

neighbourhood just footsteps away from the

Garnier Opera house on Rue Vivienne, in the

same spot where the house is located today.

Their goal was to create the finest in hand-

welted shoes, and still today, the shoes are

entirely made by hand in the workshops of this

family-owned company.

André Aubercy was given a helping hand

in 1950 by his friend Arturo López Willshaw,

a flamboyant society figure and refined

Parisian aesthete who would discover the

art and craftwork of the legendary European

shoemakers like Nikolaus Tuczek, George

Cleverley and John Lobb. André Aubercy

would immerse himself in the craft methods

that created the reputation of traditional

English shoes.

Opposed to the harmonisation and

mechanisation of factory work, André

Aubercy’s wish was rather to offer hand-

welted shoes fashioned from the finest of skins

crafted in a family-owned workshop in order

to promote true craftsmanship. The signature

style of Aubercy is a blend of rigorous English

traditional quality, Italian know-how and a

softer, slightly more delicate French touch.

In 1970, André Aubercy passed the torch

to his son Philippe and his wife and later

in 1995, Xavier Aubercy would continue to

pursue the same goal of perfection, a goal that

is carried out to this day.

Today, the house produces only a few

hundred pairs of shoes a year worn by

connoisseurs throughout the world. Both

ready-to-wear and custom-made shoes are

fashioned in the heart of Paris for Aubercy

provides hand-sewn ready-to-wear shoes, an

incredible made-to-order service, as well as a

high quality cobbler located in the glamorous

Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood. At the

bespoke atelier, Japanese master-shoemaker

Yasuhiro Shiota will turn the dreams of

Aubercy guests into elegant reality.

The house Aubercy was awarded the

Living Heritage Company label, a unique

French government distinction associated

with the recognition of firms for the excellence

of their traditional skills. The last family-owned

shoemaker in France, Aubercy has been one

of Paris’s best-kept secrets for connoisseurs of

fine shoes.

Fine Shoes Fashioned in the Heart of Paris

Aubercy Boutique

34 rue Vivienne (2nd), 01 42 33 93 61

http://www.aubercy.com

AUBERCY

50 WHERE Paris i DECEMBEr 2017