Hender Scheme, a leather brand with an atelier in Asakusa, Japan's major leather shoe production center, which collaborates with artisans to create its products, has unveiled its new 2016 Spring/Summer collection.

This season, with a "post modern" theme, the brand has expanded its range of models by expressing a new balance through fine details and manufacturing methods. The shoe collection includes functional boots with detachable waterproof pigskin rain covers (58,000 yen), one-piece slip-ons (28,000 yen), and slip-on-like oil kip mules with stitched motifs on the upper (37,000 yen). Accessories include canvas bags (small 22,000 yen, big 26,000 yen), brass bangles wrapped in tanned leather (S 11,000 yen, M 13,000 yen, L 16,000 yen), and leather windmills (3,600 yen). Also available is the new "manual industrial products -13" (33,000 yen), a homage to ballet flats, from the "Hommage" line, which releases one model each season. The upper is made of supple horsehide leather and the sole is made of tanned cowhide, making it comfortable to wear even barefoot. This line offers special items that pay homage to popular sneakers from the past and traditional Japanese geta sandals, recreated as leather shoes by hand at Hender Scheme. In recent years, industrial products have become more prevalent than custom-made items, but this product was designed to encourage a rethinking of product value, with a production background in which artisans divide up the work to create a single item.

Each item will begin to be delivered sequentially from December to 1LDK stores, mainly in Tokyo.