Keeping it classic: Shoe designer Erïk Bjerkesjö

Images courtesy of www.erikbjerkesjo.com
 

Erïk Bjerkesjö is keeping it unchangingly old school. Forget about big-scale productions and think banging sweaty men in leather aprons sledging away on soles that your feet soon are getting the honourably honour to wear.

In a small factory in Tuscany, together with some Italian shoemakers, Bjerkesjo makes men’s shoes with a hammer and some nails, neatly hand-sowing together calf-leather-skin into shiny well-designed footwear. For the shoe fetish the dream doesn’t get wetter than this.

The Swedish, Italian-educated shoe designer is a man who truly believes in craftsman traditions. It may be because of his upbringing on Gotland, the historic hotspot in Sweden still hosting the annual “Medieval Week” every year. Or maybe it is because of his classic Italian "we-are-the-cradle-of-design-education", at the renowned Polimoda Fashion School in Florence. Either way, for anyone looking for quality and timeless foot pieces, there is no more time to waste.   

His shoes are not extravagantly looking or are anywhere remotely close to the elaborate Christian Louboutin leopard-skin studded shoes. Instead, Bjerkesjö’s pieces are straightforward and classic. Some would perhaps say they are boring. I simply say they are fantastic.

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