Beauty’s Never Enough - The World of Caulaincourt

Sasha Leboeuf
13 mai
2 min de lecture

Words by Alexis Lafont, founder of Caulaincourt, translated by Anne-Cécile Reymond.

Photography by William Lentz for L'Intemporel.

Caulaincourt par L'Intemporel, photos de Wiliam Lentz. La Beauté ne suffit pas.

Caulaincourt is a reference, a complex and molded style, a quest for insatiable aestheticism. We are here to tell you all about it, and how we experienced this adventure in the showroom.

“I make wonderful shoes in a noteworthy quality, for people who love beauty and happen to have a certain taste.”

“I do not work for some elite. I work for all those who want to believe in beauty. If someone can afford dressing and wearing my brand, it might also be because he is too busy to be concerned with that specific beauty, so that’s on me; I am in charge of this.”

“An improperly worn shoe is worse than a badly maintained one. If not well-exploited, even the best object will lose its full potential. That’s now been my line for 15 years, and since then, the same mistakes always occur.”

“In the middle of summer, Rive Gauche, I see a very good client coming up, a foreigner, french style looked good on him. He was wearing Caulaincourt espadrilles, something that had not been made for him, what he is, nor his style. However I keep quiet and escort him to the door to then see him get into his beige Jaguar XK 120 … In a white polo shirt, and a slim camel canvas. Suddenly, it all takes shape.”