Dinner With Louis Leeman

During one of my last nights in New York, I had the pleasure of being invited to join Dutch-born Paris-based shoe designer Louis Leeman and his lovely art director and girlfriend, Erica Pelosini, for an intimate dinner at Hakkasan where guests could not decide if they wanted to devour the perfectly packaged parcels that were the food or the footwear. It's not often you come across such an exquisitely produced product with such rock n' roll appeal, so if you're a man who knows the value of investing in good shoe when he sees one (or you happen to be dating one), and you haven't heard of the brand, take a minute to familiarise and a month to brace your bank account.

Photos by Giulio Bertocci