Collection

Collection 2017-2018 1

Milan ITALY

Pure style Unique and elegant, simple and alluring: our shoes. Our collections are for men who choose, every day, the Italian quintessential character, optimistic and audacious as Riccardo Freccia Bestetti used to be. Our shoes smile, speak, laugh and express their colourful soul. In our shoes, there is much of the Italian Rationalism teaching, a cultural and representational background we are rooted in. Few lines, an easy composition of the volume, a balance between back and front, lower and upper shoes, all this composes our shoes and they uniquely appear in men s wardrobe as different and precious. We are Italian, but above all Milanese. Our shoes breath everyday Milan s energy and creativity and we embody every day the city s unlimited ability of inventing and designing unique objects. For these reasons, from 1992 our catalogue keep changing, adding new models, reviewing older and reinventing new ones, promoting style freedom in the Italian way, creative and always elegant. An incredible, close-knit team of workers everyday gives life to Bestetti shoes, honouring Riccardo Freccia Bestetti s memory and moving forward. Every day the research department, a new big investment for the company, works at the combination of human anatomy and shoes design, to ensure the best quality, a unique design and a perfect fit. Research and innovation are behind our creations: through research we constantly study how our shoes are done and thanks to innovation we create everyday products full of expertise and perfect in serving the use for which they are done. We are proud to say that our skins, the leather we use and the colours we create are simple the best, since we have only one source of inspiration: nature. Italian nature, so full of colours and sun, is our only inspiration and our shoes show the combination of light and shapes we see out of our windows constantly. Beauty fascinates us. We don t know how to do things differently than that.

Contents Skilled Hands Product Lines Lasts Models Boots New Models Sustainable Marco Facchinetti 9 17 19 23 67 71 81 83 6

Skilled Hands We do shoes by hand, all shoes, and throughout the whole process. Starting from the measurements and up to the moment we pack our shoes for delivery, our hands are working. Many hands have replaced Riccardo Freccia Bestetti s Artist hands, many hands all together every day, in a strong team, cheerful, motivated, and highly skilled. Doing shoes by hands means to feel the skin, touch it, enhance it. It means to be aware of defects and imperfections and correcting them, transforming them into personality and uniqueness. That s the way we are, we are Italians and we believe in distinctiveness: all the shoes from Ready to Wear to Bespoke go through our hands, molding their shape and volume, creating their color in our Unique Patina. Hands full of talent, hands full of passion. 8 9

LAST CREATION 1 10 3 HAND CUTTING MODEL CREATION AND DESIGN 2 11

4 HAND UPPER STITCHING 6 HAND SOLE STITCHING HAND MADE ASSEMBLING 5 12 13

SOLE NARROWING AND FINISHING 7 14 8 HAND SOLE MILLING HAND POLISHING AND PATINA CREATION 9 15

Product Lines Tailor made shoes for every need and all the desires. Ready to Wear (RTW) Ready to Wear collection s shoes are made on standard UK sizes. All shoes are hand welted and hand stitched. Made to Order (MTO) Shoes are made starting from UK standard sizes, customised on customer s needs and features. All shoes are hand made and hand stitched. MTO shoes have full, rich colours, polished to perfection. Novecento Line Novecento Line is a signature collection, representing the best of Bestetti Shoes. Totally hand made and hand stitched, shoes are made on personal measurements. Through the use of testing shoes, prepared immediately after taking measurements, shoes are tested on a fitting moment with customers. Once customers personal last is perfect, Novecento Line shoes are done, with customized colours effects, patina and super hand polishing. Novecento Line shoes are the greatest gateway to Bestetti Shoes world. Bespoke Following Bestetti style, customers can create their own shoes, from the model to the finishing. Based on the same process of measurement, testing and personal last creation, Bespoke shoes give the chance to create and invent new models, totally unique and customized on customers ideas and dreams. All Bespoke models are never used for other customers and they remain only for who requested them. Super polishing and a two days process patina create the exclusivity on bespoke shoes. 16 17

Lasts Our lasts keep all our secrets. They show, in the combination of lines and volumes, all the research and the studies beyond them. Since 1990, our research is focused on combining two different things: the anatomy of feet, something that changes constantly, and the clean, rational, elegant design of the shoes, something that should not change on the life of the shoes. We propose two signature lasts: the Almond Toe, with its recognizable narrow round toe, and the Perfetta, taken from our old Italian style last and with its recognizable narrow squared toe. These two lasts are our signature lasts, and many of our shoes are done on these two lasts. From them, customers can choose to move towards more open lasts, with larger round toes (from Classic Round to English Round) or with larger squared toes (from Classic Square to English Square and Chisel toe). The combination of lines and volumes remains the same in all our lasts, and so the fitting. 18 19

PK Perfetta AT Almond Toe PK SHORT Perfetta Short CR Classic Round CS Classic Square ER English Style Round ES English Bella Square CH Chisel Toe 20 21

Models 22 23

020 A Boston 020 B 24 020 C 25

Butterfly Loafer Dandy 26 040 B Last PK, AT 040 C Last PK, AT 041 A Last PK, AT 041 C Last PK, AT 27

Boston Cannes De la Vega 28 022 A, ER, ES 022 B, ER, ES 009 A 29

Boston 060 B Cannes Buckle 060 C 30 060 A 060 D 31

070 A Buckle 20 mm Double Buckle 070 B Buckle 18 mm 32 070 C Buckle 16 mm 33

Boston Double Buckle Clerville 34 Double Buckle 021 A, ER, ES 35

Boston Foster Foster 36 021 B, ER, ES Foster 37

Boston Gladiator Gladiator 38 007 A Gladiator 39

Boston Boston Goteborg Jodhpur 40 008 N Last PK, AT 090 A 41

Boston Boston Miami Moliere 42 040 G Last CS, CR 003 A 43

Boston 001 C 001 D Maverick 001 E 001 F 44 001 A 001 B 001 G 001 H 45

Boston Boston Maverick Nizza 46 Maverick 010 A 47

Boston Mocassino Mocassino 48 040 A Last PK, AT, CR, CS Mocassino 49

Boston Boston Paris Richelieu 50 062 A Last PK, AT, CR, CS 062 B Last PK, AT, CR, CS 004 A Last PK, AT, CR, CS 004 C Last PK, AT, CR, CS 51

Boston Spider Spider 52 004 B 004 D Spider 53

Boston Boston St. James St. James Buckle 54 080 A 080 B 55

Boston 008 C 008 D Oxford 008 E 008 F 56 008 A 008 B 008 G 008 H 57

008 I 008 L Boston St. Moritz 58 Oxford 021 D Last PK, AT 59

Boston 040 D Last PK, AT Tassel Loafer 040 E Last PK, AT 60 040 F Last PK, AT 61

Boston 002 C 002 D York 002 E 002 F 62 002 A 002 B 002 G 002 H 63

Boston York Tokyo 64 York 006 A 65

Boots Western boots have been Riccardo and Marco first step into shoes world, more than 25 years ago. Attracted by the unique combination of design and comfort, they spent years studying and trying to catch all the secrets from expert and talented old cowboy boots makers. Working on design, the collection offered now is quintessentially elegant, and reinvents western boots with an authentic Italian eye. All boots are totally hand made in Milano s factory, using some very old and extraordinary techniques to create toes and stitching. WR WS 66 WF WR WS 67

Honouring Marco Facchinetti famous sharp and pointy toe boots, this last has the sharpest toe, redesigned with Riccardo Freccia Bestetti design, elegance and character. This last shows the research and the study done to combine anatomy, comfort and design. WF Western Marco Facchinetti s pointy Taken from the J toe tradition, this last offers a more relaxed, narrow round toe, on the same structure of the Almond Toe last, with the same comfort and instep of other lasts. WR Western Round WF Marco Facchinetti s personal reinterpretation of the squared toe. Sharper, smaller and with a different cut, this last shows how design can recreate a very popular toe. WS Western Squared 68 69

New Models New models are launched every month, and presented at dedicated trunk shows. Every month, honouring the city that hosts the trunk shows, there is a signature new model with the name of the city. Our way to be in touch with all the beautiful places we visit with our trunk shows. New models show our constant evolution, inventing trends and reinterpreting our legacy. As we do now launching the Freccia a whole cut mocassino, the same Riccardo Freccia Bestetti used to wear at trunk shows. An icon loafer, his own loafers to have him always with us. Freccia 70 71

FRECCIA 040 I Last PK, AT MONTECARLO 041 B Last PK, AT 72 SINGAPORE 040 H Last PK, AT LAZIMAN 008 M, ER, ES 73

CHELSEY 061 A MAVERICK BUCKLE 062 C 74 CHELSEY 061 B MAVERICK DECOR 062 D 75

GHENF 005 A SHANGHAI 007 B Last PK, AT 76 GHENF 005 B HONG KONG 022 D 77

LONDON BEAT 090 C YORK ANKLE BOOT 002 I Last PK, AT 78 LONDON GAITER 090 B 79

Sustainable We are responsible. Our shoes are totally hand made, with top quality products. We know where our skins come from: no wild animals, only selected and certified animals farms. And we know where our leather and wood come from. Being part of the Blossom Avenue world, Riccardo Freccia Bestetti takes wood, scents and some finishing products from The Blossom Avenue Living Farm, a 100% sustainable and zero impact farm, on the southern edge of Sardinia, Italy. Our shoes breath the same breeze coming from the sea and enjoy the same sun. Wearing them is like wearing a fragment of Italian landscape Panoramic view from Bidda Beccia, The Living Farm (Domus de Maria, Cagliari, Sardinia) 81

Marco Facchinetti Marco is the man behind Riccardo Freccia Bestetti shoes. After spending 25 years Boston side by side with Riccardo, Marco knows all the secrets and the techniques of the shoes his factory does. Everything starts from Marco s passion: his personal collection of more than 150 pairs of boots and shoes shows the history and the development of all the models he has been working at with Riccardo in the past. Something happens wearing boots or shoes he creates, something unique and exceptional. Marco, above all, is the creator of The Blossom Avenue, a family of companies, based in Italy, in the US and quickly developing in Asia, who s mission is for better human living, and under this umbrella Marco has spent the last 20 years designing and creating some of the most beautiful places, for private and public uses, able to enhance human experiences and everyday life quality. Shoes and boots can do the same: everybody is happier wearing a unique pair of shoes; everybody feels stronger wearing a pair of customized boots. Marco is the man behind all this, and he runs the company in Milano, Italy and travels the world presenting shoes at trunk shows with the same human, friendly and happy attitude. Bestetti shoes world is a human world first of all, made of and made by people. MEET MARCO marco.facchinetti@theblossomavenue.com Skype: markboots3 83

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