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John Lobb, the shoemaker who knows how to fit Philippe Noiret

2021-10-22T04:22:52.208Z


For thirty years, the actor had an annual pair of shoes made by the most Parisian of English shoemakers. A passion currently on display in the store on rue François-Ier.


The year 1973 was a milestone for Philippe Noiret, and not only because

La Grande Bouffe was

released

on the screens. Or rather if, since it is probably the cachet of the shock film of Marco Ferreri which will allow him to make the other great meeting of this period: John Lobb. We are then far from the film sets, at 74 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré.

“My father, who was very elegant, a magnificent man, had an office in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré and, when I was young, I passed by Lobb's every day. This is where I caught the virus, ”

confided the actor in the 1990s.

One evening in 1973, therefore, he asked Monique Chaumette, his wife and his best advisor, for permission (

“because it was madness”,

he said) to give in to temptation.

Does she know what awaits her when she gives him permission to push open the door of the famous workshop?

“I like craftsmanship,”

he explained.

Work done by the hand of a man rather than by a machine. "

The man,

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Source: lefigaro

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