Klemen has a legacy of shoe making that dates back over 80 years. Founded in La Romagne, France in the home of Rene Cleon on his return from the second world war, he hired a team of apprentice shoe makers and cutters along with a small collection of old stitching and assembling machines to create the first Klemen shoe. Once Rene handed the business to his sons in the 1980's, the brothers founded the name Klemen in 1988 and become the blue collar workwear supplier of footwear for the French railway company and Air France. Making high quality, affordable shoes for all of the nations key travel workers. Fast forward to today and the Klemen footwear brand is a workwear institution across Europe. Quality and value are its priority to the French nation and beyond.

• 100% Leather upper material from a world renowned Spanish tannery.
• The Padror was designed in the early 90’s for the French SNCF workforce as a standard issue shoe.
• Double mock toe stitching detail
• Full leather lining
• Made in France
• THE most iconic French shoe of all time.