American-Japanese shoemaker Seiji McCarthy recently updated his brand to combine classic American style with precise Japanese craftsmanship. We discuss his journey towards merging both styles; from finding himself as a shoemaker, loving traditional US styles with relaxed elegance, finding his identity as a shoemaker, the revamping process and more.
This episode introduces Seiji McCarthy (Instagram here), an American father and Japanese mother shoemaker from Philadelphia on the US East coast who now resides permanently in Tokyo, Japan combining Japanese highly skilled craftsmanship with classic American footwear designs.
Not always though; until a few years ago Seiji produced more dressy British-Japanese style shoes. When this wasn’t satisfying him and what he truly desired to do, Seiji decided to revamp his brand and reinvent himself and what he offered as part of it – we will discuss this process and his American roots beginning to flourish while living in Japan, his passion for preservation of American style, etc. Furthermore he offers MTO starting from $1,500 up to full bespoke.
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