Kleman Tag

PARIS — Kleman is prepared for a latest era. The French legacy work shoe brand has opened its first flagship, on the tender age of 78. Kleman has long been the footwear provider to stalwart corporations like Air France, in addition to the French police and military. The brand is now putting down stakes in Paris’ Marais, on the favored Rue de Temps, because it seeks to expand in the style category. “Our objective of the shop is to speak the brand and the Kleman story,” said head of sales Alexandre Cléon, grandson of the founder and one in every of two brothers on the helm. “We're an 80-year-old company and we're used to working with distributors and stockists, but that is our...