Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This is the part 3 of our Sartorial Grand Tour of Southeast Asia!
In this episode Hugo welcomes Alan Lee, founder of the great shoe brand CNES. The brand crafts its wonderful shoes in his own factory in Vietnam and owns 5 shops: One in Singapore and four in Vietnam. It also supplies demanding customers all around the planet.
PS: We had to upload a new version of this video (originally uploaded yesterday) for technical reasons. Apologies.
🚩 Exclusive Ready-to-wear offer: If your want to enjoy a 20% discount on a batch of 2 pairs of excellent Goodyear welted shoes just use our code PG20 on checkout. Here is the link: cnes.co/collections/readytowear
🚩 Exclusive MTO offer for our subscribers: If you order two pairs of MTO shoes of your choice, you will enjoy a free upgrade from machine Goodyear to hand stitched Goodyear. ONLY 20 SLOTS AVAILABLE (40 pairs)! All you need to do is to send an email to hugo@parisiangentleman.fr and we'll make it happen for you!
00:00 Introduction
06:00 Goodyear welted VS Hand welted shoes
11:21 Hugo's experience of CNES shoes (in real life)
17:52 MTO shoes (including exotic skins)
31:18 Ready-to-wear models
35:05 EXCLUSIVE OFFERS for our subscribers
This is the part 3 of our Sartorial Grand Tour of Southeast Asia!
In this episode Hugo welcomes Alan Lee, founder of the great shoe brand CNES. The brand crafts its wonderful shoes in his own factory in Vietnam and owns 5 shops: One in Singapore and four in Vietnam. It also supplies demanding customers all around the planet.
PS: We had to upload a new version of this video (originally uploaded yesterday) for technical reasons. Apologies.
🚩 Exclusive Ready-to-wear offer: If your want to enjoy a 20% discount on a batch of 2 pairs of excellent Goodyear welted shoes just use our code PG20 on checkout. Here is the link: cnes.co/collections/readytowear
🚩 Exclusive MTO offer for our subscribers: If you order two pairs of MTO shoes of your choice, you will enjoy a free upgrade from machine Goodyear to hand stitched Goodyear. ONLY 20 SLOTS AVAILABLE (40 pairs)! All you need to do is to send an email to hugo@parisiangentleman.fr and we'll make it happen for you!
00:00 Introduction
06:00 Goodyear welted VS Hand welted shoes
11:21 Hugo's experience of CNES shoes (in real life)
17:52 MTO shoes (including exotic skins)
31:18 Ready-to-wear models
35:05 EXCLUSIVE OFFERS for our subscribers
