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Hello All , I visited today at the boutique on Madison Avenue and it was explained to me from Paul (the person responsible for Bespoke) that in fact JL Paris uses wood lasts and in fact carves the finished last from hand. Apparently at my final visit to the bespoke shop when Phillippe Attienza showe...

(Edit) Regardless of what Patrick says I know I've personally seen the "new" system shown to me by the Bespoke director at that time Philippe Attienza. I am not making any judgments as to which system is better, just to the fact that they changed systems. I understand why Patrick may be protecting t...

There is no dispute, John Lobb Paris uses computer measured plastic lasts. I can verify as a first hand eye-witness, this is the case. It's that simple. They still take hand measurements and feed the information into the computer which then creates the plastic last based on these measurements. This ...

This is my first time on this site as I was invited by a good friend of mine to offer a word or two on the subject of John Lobb. I've read some of the posts and I'm not where it has left off, but I can tell you for certain that during my time as the General Manager for the flagship store in NYC for ...