In this podcast series Jesper Ingevaldsson of Shoegazing, one of the world's largest websites on classic men's shoes, does in-depth interviews with various shoe people from all over the world, where each episode will focus on a specific topic related to the interviewee. For much more on classic quality shoes, visit Shoegazing.com.
Ep. 38 - John Chung, Mason & Smith, about professional shoe shining
For this episode I met John Chung, who runs the shoe shine bar, shoe and leather goods repair shop and shoe store Mason & Smith in Singapore. He won the world championships of shoe shining in 2018, and has for many years been an ambassadeur for professional shoe shining in particular and caring for your shoes in general. Mason & Smith has not least been pioneers with shoe shine videos on Instagram and TikTok, reaching a very wide audience globally.
I talk with John about how he decided to skip university to instead refurb and sell thrift store shoes to eventually build up his shoe shine business, about why Asians dominate the professional shoe shining scene, about what professional shoe shiners do differently to regular people caring for their shoes, and more.
20 Mar 2026
Ep. 37 - Q&A Special with Seiji McCarthy
This around it's time for another Q&A Special, and the one who gets to answer all the questions is the American / Japanese shoemaker Seiji McCarthy. He's based in Tokyo since many years where he runs his very successful shoe brand that primarily makes classic American styled bespoke, MTM and MTO shoes. You can hear more about his journey in episode 25 of the podcast.
Some of the questions he'll answer are on why there’s not more American bespoke shoemakers making classic American style shoes, how his workshop is set up, if lastmaking skill is affected by more makers offering handmade MTO shoes, and much more.
22 Dec 2025
Ep. 36 - Daniel Bucheli, Majordome, about finding a unique design language
For this one, I met up with Daniel Bucheli of the Swiss shoe company Majordome. It was founded in 2012 in Zurich, they now have stores in the hometown as well as Lausanne, Bern and New York. Majordome started off doing only Goodyear welted Made to Order and Made to Measure shoes, and still today custom orders account for about half their sales.
Even if the brand has a foundation of more classic styles, what they are most known for today are their more unique designs, these are often more casual models that work with contrasts, but never over the top, always highly wearable. Stuff like their boat shoe model, casual oxford, blucher boot or galosh sneaker are all ones that have a distinct Majordome character. Check out their Instagram to understand what I mean, if you're not yet familiar with them.
With Daniel Bucheli I talk a lot about the design aspect and how a brand can find its own aesthetic language, and of course a lot more.
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