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Kleman
KLEMAN, THE FRENCH WORK SHOE BECAME A STREETWEAR CLASSIC
RENÉ CLÉON FOUNDED HIS MANUFACTURE IN ROMAGNA IN 1945
It all started with a shoemaker and a family home. In 1945, René Cléon returned from the war and set up his workshop in La Romagne, near Cholet, in Maine-et-Loire — one of the historic cradles of French shoes. He specializes in Kneipp sewn, an assembly where the sole is sewn to the outside of the upper, visible, repairable, made to last. The Cléon manufacture primarily equips professionals: SNCF, Air France, customs, firefighters, the army. Shoes designed to be worn ten hours a day and not changed.
The brand Kleman — contraction of Cléon Manufacture — was launched in 1988 to sell these models to the general public, redesigned but not transformed. Today, Mathieu and Alex Cléon, the grandsons of the founder, manage around forty people in the same village, and everything is still made on site, down to the laces, woven ten kilometers from the workshop. Kleman is one of the rare shoe brands entirely produced in France under €200.
PADROR, MAJOR, PADRINI: THE DERBYS KLEMAN
The Padror is the shoe that made the brand known outside the workshops: a derby in thick leather with wingtip, serrated hem and visible stitching, unchanged since the 1980s — he was called Padre when he wore railway workers' shoes. We have it in black, in A Brown, in B2 with notched sole, in G VGT with rubber sole, in VV Chocolate. The Padrini is the thinner version of the Padror. The Major, its straight-toed brother, and its variation Major VP Oak 2 on Oak sole, complete the family of derby shoes.
EMBRUNS, NOMAD, MAIL, GRANITE: BOOTS AND THE OTHERS
The house is not limited to derby shoes. TheEmbruns Oak is the lace-up boot in the range, mounted on the same thick rubber Oak sole. The Nomade M, in cognac, leans toward a flexible walking shoe; the Courrier CG uses the model worn by postmen; the Granite 2 VM3, in green, is the field shoe of the range; the Cotteur B2 plays the boot short on a notched sole. All share European cowhide leather, Kneipp stitching and the comfort of a shoe designed for standing work.
HOW TO SIZE AND HOW TO WEAR KLEMAN
The Kleman are true to size and fit wide at the forefoot; Take your usual size, half a size smaller if you have thin feet. The leather is stiff out of the box and requires two weeks of wear to soften — that's the price of durability. They are worn with what they were made for: Carharttwork pants, raw cuffed jeans, a thick sock visible between the two. In our shoes department, Kleman occupies the place of French workwear, facing the English Dr. Martens and Diemme, the Italian and mountain version of the same idea: a practical shoe becoming a stylish shoe without changing anything.
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