{"id":15213484,"date":"2026-07-17T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/alessandro-gasparini-refined-low-vamp-loafers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:33:33","slug":"alessandro-gasparini-refined-low-vamp-loafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/alessandro-gasparini-refined-low-vamp-loafers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro Gasparini: Refined low-vamp loafers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-113098\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-113098-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-113098-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\">\n<div id=\"panel-113098-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-header panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-header so-widget-sow-header-base\">\n<div class=\"header-wrapper separate\">\n<h1>Alessandro Gasparini: Refined low-vamp loafers<\/h1>\n<div 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href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/review-of-Alessandro-Gasparini-loafers-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-113052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/review-of-Alessandro-Gasparini-loafers-467x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alessandrogasparini.com\/\">Alessandro Gasparini<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> makes high-end loafers that are slim and light: Blake stitched, but with materials on a par with the likes of an Edward Green or John Lobb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s probably the most important thing to say first, as the prices can seem high compared to some Blake-stitched loafers or Belgians: leather models are \u00a3545 and suede \u00a3525. That price is largely because of the quality of the materials and make, rather than being a big designer brand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interestingly though, Gasparini\u2019s background is in brands, having been a shoe designer at various ones over the years, including Dunhill. Like a few new outfits we\u2019ve covered recently \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/2024\/12\/august-special-innovative-rugged-boots-and-loafers.html\">August Special<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/2026\/06\/museum-garments-an-effective-mix-of-classic-and-modern.html\">Museum Garments<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 he\u2019s coming to this with experience, and that\u2019s why the product feels so complete, rather than work in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113090\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Mocasso_Leather_Loafer_Nero_-_Bottom.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-113090 size-extra-large-no-crop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Mocasso_Leather_Loafer_Nero_-_Bottom-e1783947039993-580x372.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moccaso in black leather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other thing to establish early is that I have a pair (the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/alessandrogasparini.com\/products\/mocasso-leather-loafer?variant=55628041027959\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">black smooth leather<\/span><\/a> above<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and have been wearing them frequently over the past three months. The fit is probably the best I\u2019ve had in a low-vamp loafer like this, and they were comfortable straight away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I took my regular shoe size \u2013 9 UK, 43 EU \u2013 and apart from a little biting on the joint of my big toe, which always happens with me, they fit very well. I wore them consistently during Pitti (where they are pictured here &#8211; with a cotton suit at top and my Whitcomb cotton jacket below) and they did very well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My slim heel means I often get a lot of heel slippage, particularly in something like Alden, but here it was minimal. Of course, this is personal and depends on your foot, but hopefully the experience is helpful to get a sense of what the shape is like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113055\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/U1I2113-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-113055 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/U1I2113-copy-467x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The loafers in a semi-smart outfit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gasparini worked designing women\u2019s shoe lines as well as men\u2019s, but as often happens with these start-ups, struggled to find shoes he wanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPartly that was because of the size of my feet,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m a size 6 and few people go down that far. But also, I liked 1980s styles in particular, Ralph Lauren ones from back then with a low throat line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A throat line, I learned, is what bespoke shoemakers also call the top line \u2013 the top of the shoe around the ankle and the sides of the feet. This is indeed lower on Gasparini\u2019s shoes, though I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s barely noticeable. The low vamp \u2013 how far the front of the shoe extends up your foot \u2013 is more noticeable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt felt fresh to me, showing more of the instep,\u201d he says. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to make them look vintage or old, from a particular era, just fresh and elegant. So I started making them myself in the factories I was working with, and people started asking me where they could buy them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108826\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/best-tassel-loafers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-108826 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/best-tassel-loafers-500x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vintage 1980s alligator loafers with a low vamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been wearing an old pair of 1980s Ralph Lauren loafers quite a lot since I found them on eBay a couple of years ago, which is a coincidence \u2013 that\u2019s them pictured above, and they were also in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/2024\/04\/how-to-wear-black-shoes-with-jeans.html\">this article on wearing black shoes with jeans<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The style is slightly unusual and more feminine, although that\u2019s also subjective \u2013 a lot of those 80s suits that were seen as so masculine were worn with slim, low-vamped Italian shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I\u2019ve found both my old Ralph ones and these Gasparinis very wearable. In fact, probably more wearable than the Belgian loafers from Baudoin &amp; Lange and others that have been so popular for the last 15 years or so. They feel simpler and more classic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gasparini loafer doesn\u2019t have some of the innovations of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/baudoinlange.com\/collections\/men-sagan-classic\">B&amp;L Sagan<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but I don\u2019t find it any less comfortable. This is partly due to the quality of the materials \u2013 the full leather sock and lining is really nice even against bare skin \u2013 but there is also a thin layer of padding on the insole.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113111\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSCF2293-3-vert-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-113111 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSCF2293-3-vert-1-500x684.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suede loafer with its turned top edge (so no stitching)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cInitially I made the shoes in Milan, because it was easy \u2013 I was flying home to Como from London all the time, so I could stop in and see them,\u201d says Gasparini. \u201cBut they mostly made women\u2019s shoes there, and you could feel they were too perfect and too delicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He moved the production to a small workshop in the Marche, which makes more men\u2019s shoes, and preferred that: \u201cThe attitude with womenswear is just always to keep things clean and perfect, but the men\u2019s is about craft that makes things look better with age, which I love.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He did keep some of the elements from those first designs. For example, the suede loafers have a turned finish on the top line, so there\u2019s no visible seam. I like that as a detail, particularly because it\u2019s so subtle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gasparini used a Blake-stitched sole to get the slimness he wanted, but he likes a Goodyear welt as well, and there will be future styles in that style. He also insisted on a hidden channel on the sole, so the stitching isn\u2019t visible, which makes it rather more refined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alessandro-Gasparini-loafers-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-113053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alessandro-Gasparini-loafers-467x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113097\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fav-Spring-outfit-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-113097 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permanentstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fav-Spring-outfit-2-460x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cl\u00e9a Carlier of @classic_nonchalance in a pair of the loafers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I got the smooth-leather model in black because I know how much I wore those Ralph ones and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardgreen.com\/unlined-piccadilly-classic-deconstructed\">my EG Piccadilly loafers<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in that colour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compared to Edward Green (or another English Goodyear-welted style) the Gasparini loafers are slightly more casual and easier to wear with warm weather pieces, like a linen trouser \u2013 but I&#8217;d say the difference is really more a style choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It used to be that loafers like this were referred to generically as Italian loafers, because so many came from Italian makers or brands \u2013 whereas English and American shoes were welted and chunkier. The division is less stark these days, but that\u2019s still a good way to think of the style. It&#8217;s a question of which you prefer, and you probably don\u2019t need both. Though of course there&#8217;s nothing stopping you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alessandro Gasparini shoes are only currently available on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/alessandrogasparini.com\/\"><i>his website<\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the only wholesale is in Japan. The shoes fit true to size and Simon wears his regular size of 9 UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cotton suit shown at top is from Luca Museo and will be reviewed separately. 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