Penny loafer Newport – RESERVE SERIES –

    Cordovan: grand cru leather   Some objects have an aura. Some materials too. By its patina, its chatoyancy, its unique characteristics & the mystery that surrounds its manufacture (more than 100 steps are necessary), the cordovan radiates from the heart of its fibers a lustrous fire that, like an islay whisky really, one gradually tames and then reveres. There is indeed something that plays with the idea of worshiping, among some aficionados. One must, at least once, have possessed a pair of cordovan shoes to understand. The cordovan is a intermediary part of the rump of a horse,…