World Championship in Shoe Patina 👞🎨 | Kirby Allison

Hi, I'm Kirby Allison, and I love to help the well-dressed acquire and care for their wardrobes and explore the world of quality, craftsmanship, and tradition. This year, my team and I flew to London for the 2019 World Championship of Patina, where three distinguished patina artists from around the world came together to see who could most-beautifully transform an unfinished dress shoe into a work of art only using alcohol-based leather dyes and shoe polish.

Meet the Competition:
Stéphane Villette, France. A “grand old man” in the world of shoe patina, who has worked with painting shoes and other leather products since 1994, today among other things paint the bespoke shoes of Stéphane Jimenez. Here Stephane Villette shows off a relatively muted patina, which has given the shoes a depth you can almost drown in.

Andrzej Olender, Poland. Runs the largest shoe patina and glacage service of Poland, The Shine. His qualification pic is of a pair of derbies with a gorgeous marbled brown patina. Even if you look up-close it looks very natural, great work.

Samuel Norsworthy, England. If Villette is a patina veteran, Sam is a rookie. He started working at Gaziano & Girling just a couple of years ago, where he has been extremely dedicated and learned closing uppers, clicking, painting patina, and shining shoes, from the masters working at the company. This single monk has beautiful, living transitions from the light brown in the middle of the shoe up to the dark toe.

Join us as we watch the competition unfold!

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Interview w/ Sam Norsworthy 1:53
Competition Start 4:06
Judging 8:24
Announcements Begin 9:16
Winner Announced 13:08
Interview w/ Thomas Brunschwig 13:41

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