Every season, I try to pay attention to what I reach for without thinking. Not what I intended to wear, or what I photographed beautifully, or what tested well in customer feedback. What I actually put on, on a normal Tuesday morning, when I wasn't planning anything.
This is useful data. The shoes that get worn without thought are the shoes that are working. Everything else, no matter how beautiful, is failing at its most basic job.
Here's what I reached for this autumn.
1. The Beige Boat Shoe
I'll be honest: I wasn't sure I'd reach for this one as much as I did. The Boat Shoe was a new style for us this season and I launched it with enthusiasm but also a certain amount of nervous energy. Would I wear it myself, genuinely, or would it become one of those things I made because I believed in it on paper?
I wore it almost every day in March. The kid suede is softer than I expected, softer than any leather I've worked with in this silhouette before. It goes on easily, it doesn't dig anywhere, and it looks as good at 6pm as it did at 7am. That's the whole brief for what I want from a shoe.
2. The Camel Suede Pointed Flat
The deconstructed elastic back on this shoe was something I was worried about aesthetically. Would it look unfinished? In person, it looks intentional and modern. And the practical effect of that elastic is genuinely significant: the shoe moves with your foot in a way that a traditional rigid back simply doesn't.
I wore this constantly through the middle of autumn, particularly on days when I needed to be on my feet for long stretches. It never once made me want to take it off.
3. The Raffia Ballet Flat
This is the one that surprised me most. I've always loved the Raffia but I was never certain it would become a daily shoe for me. Raffia feels like a deliberate choice, a statement material. But autumn 2026 has been warm and the texture of the raffia against the cooler morning air had something to it that kept me reaching for it.
The tan leather trim grounds it. Without that, raffia can feel flimsy. With it, the shoe has a structure and polish that makes it genuinely versatile. I wore it with jeans, with a linen dress, with a midi skirt. It worked every time.
4. The Leopard Hair-On Flat
Every season I make a hair-on leather style and every season I think: this might be too much. And every season I end up wearing it more than anything else in the range.
The Leopard is a neutral. I know I keep saying this and I know it sounds counterintuitive, but the warm browns and blacks in the natural leopard pattern go with everything in an autumn wardrobe. I wore it with camel, with black, with rust, with olive. It never clashed. It always elevated.
5. The Ecru Round Toe Ballet Flat
The Round Toe was our biggest launch gamble of the season. A genuinely new silhouette, not just a new colour or texture. I wore the Ecru sheep leather version constantly through late April and into May, partly as quality testing and partly because I couldn't stop.
Sheep leather is the softest leather we've worked with. The Ecru is the quietest colour we've made. The round toe is the most relaxed silhouette in the range. All three of these things together produce a shoe that asks nothing of you. You put it on and it simply works.
What this season taught me
The shoes I reached for most were the ones that made getting dressed easier, not more interesting. That's a nuance I'm still working through. Interest is valuable. I want to make shoes that are beautiful and distinctive. But the shoes that earn a permanent place in a wardrobe are the ones that solve the morning problem without requiring anything from you.
That's what I'm taking into winter. More solutions. More ease. And still, always, leather that's worth touching.