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Inside the Real Simons workshop in Shandong: how the brand picks horsehide, how the floor is divided, what gets rejected, and how the price comes out.

Before Real Simons was a brand, it was a village workshop in Shandong that spent more than a decade making leather jackets for major American heritage labels. This is the...

A belt is the most overlooked piece. But changing it is never small — it shifts the whole mood. We're deep in samples on a new studded belt, and a...

Instead of chasing variation, we reduced the design to four essential elements—buckle shape, buckle material, leather width, and leather finish. This editorial outlines our curation philosophy and explains how each...