Photo Credit: Daniel Quintanilla

OUTSIDE THE BOX

FSNYE kicked off its June 2025 edition today here at New York’s Park Lane Hotel with a fresh new season of beautiful high-end shoe brands. Unlike a typical large shoe brand you recognize, FSNYE has new and returning brands that are constantly innovating patented ways to reinvent high fashion shoes. Our first collection was no different as DPL first came across GANCIO/ Pantheon, a brand from Bangladesh who take leather to a whole new level.

GANCIO/ Pantheon offers up a variety of dress shoes and sneakers in beautiful styles, men’s dress shoes contain Japanese patterns lined down a smooth finish. Sneakers also serve as a fashionable and comfortable high-end shoe containing pops of color and woven-type finishes blended in. GANCIO/ Pantheon is not just in the shoe business, they also make bags being briefcases, laptop bags, metallic carryall bags, and tennis bags all made of leather.

The kicker to GANCIO/ Pantheon and their one-of-a-kind vegan leather technique is EVA, TPR, and PU engineering. Injecting these chemicals into vegan leather allows you to determine how soft or how hard you want your leather shoe to be. A sneaker can go in varying directions with leather depending on the style and model of each shoe, a comfortable shoe may require softer leather to be produced. But if you want a dress shoe, you will definitely see harder textures of leather manufactured since you want to carry yourself with style and structure.

GANCIO/ Pantheon provides you an all in one destination to find the best way to be sustainable, comfortable, and wear shoes in high fashion. Incredible techniques to enhance vegan leather prove you don’t need to rely on Mother Nature for off-the-shelf leather options. Beautiful leather conformed to be available at the style and comfort you demand apparently is not a rare option. Sustainability in leather now has a chance to prevail if you are in the market for only a high-end sneaker or shoe, which too last more than one season.

DANIEL QUINTANILLA