Tatler Singapore

MAKING THE CUT

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We stop at the desk of a white-bearded gentleman who has been making templates for Berluti’s leather since 1975. His team of young apprentice­s follows the measuremen­ts of each last to make computer-aided design drawings, which are printed onto white vanguard sheet templates. He then places these templates onto leather pieces, and hand-cuts the pieces for every single pair of shoes, much like a tailor would. He is unruffled by our clicking cameras and whispered questions, smiling as he deftly completes the cuts for a pair of shoes and holds them up for us to admire. “This is the only department where some form of computer work is used in our shoemaking process,” explains Dall’aglio. “This helps us achieve the best precision and also cope with the volume of orders we receive.”

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