Why this shop
exists.

There was a time when a good pair of shoes was something a man bought once and wore for years, taking them to the cobbler for new soles whenever they wore through. Somewhere along the way luxury came to mean a logo and a price that climbs every season, while more and more of the work inside the shoe went to machines. Yearn’s shoes are made the older way, and that’s why I sell them.

A pair that becomes yours

A few weeks into wearing them, the leather that felt firm on the first morning has given at the creases, the thick insole has shaped itself to your foot, and the shoes have settled into your stride. From there they keep improving, the colour deepening and the leather softening, and when the sole wears through it’s replaced and the shoes carry on for years.

Sewn by hand

Yearn’s craftsmen sew the welt by hand straight into a thick leather insole and stitch the sole by hand as well, in calf from Annonay in France and Bonaudo in Italy. Several of Europe’s most famous shoemakers sew theirs by machine and charge around €1,600 a pair, and very few shoes at this price are sewn by hand all the way through.

The design

Each last gives the shoe its own presence, the Y07 a sharp chisel toe that belongs with a suit and the N2 a fuller, vintage line that comes into its own with tweed and denim. The museum patina on the OXF 768 is painted on by hand, so your pair will be unlike anyone else’s, and the BTS 7051 is built for me alone and isn’t sold anywhere else.

From me

When my first pair from Yearn arrived, I was spoiled, and no other shoe has done since. I’m Yearn’s only official dealer in the EU, so you can have a pair from €775 at the price you see, with free delivery in Denmark and a free first size exchange. I answer every email myself.