Craftsmanship

Everything began with the last.

It shapes the foot, gives the boot its balance and decides how it follows the leg. It is also what separates a western boot you notice from one you feel at ease in immediately.

We worked its proportions until we found that particular balance: enough character to keep all the strength of a western boot, enough restraint that it never takes over from the woman wearing it.

The toe, the arch, the height of the heel, the inner volume, the line of the shaft: nothing was considered separately.

Because to us, comfort and silhouette should never be two different subjects.

Midnight came out of that search.

And since then we have gone on working around that same last, refining and interpreting it, rather than replacing it each season.

It has become how we work.

We were not simply looking for an atelier able to make a boot.

We were looking for people who understood the western boot before we had to explain it.

In Spain we found an atelier that has given it its craft for more than a hundred years.

Generation after generation, the same constructions have been repeated, mastered and passed on. Shaping the shaft, its tension, the lasting, the sole, the heel: gestures whose precision comes as much from technique as from the time spent repeating them.

When we brought them Midnight, our intention was not to reproduce a traditional western boot.

We wanted to change its proportions. Work its line. Rethink its comfort. Give it a different presence while keeping what makes it, deeply, a western boot.

That is exactly what made the meeting possible.

The atelier agreed to work with us because we were not trying to erase that tradition, but to carry it further.

They know what, in a western boot, cannot be betrayed.

We know where we want to take it.

Between the two begins a conversation made of drawings, prototypes, adjustments and sometimes a few millimetres.

To move it forward without distorting it.

From the start, that is where our work meets.