Revive your shoes and handbags at Mr. Pronto’s Leather Care and Laundry in Chennai

Shoes and baggage being reworked at Mr. Pronto’s Leather Care and Laundry in Kottupuram, Chennai
| Photo Credit: Ravindran R

Riddled with holes, a fatigued trying Chanel bag that was relegated to the recesses of a closet, now has a brand new life. The holes are gone, the color is again, and so is the bag’s character. It is now traversing throughout the town from occasion to occasion and occasion to occasion as we communicate.

At Mr. Pronto’s Leather Care and Laundry, baggage and shoes are given a brand new lease of life and look, and even simply cleaned based mostly on the consumer’s necessities. But there are limitations. “We are not magicians. We set realistic expectations. We only do all forms of leather,” says Abhishek Dhingra, co-founder of Mr. Pronto, a shoe, bag, and restore firm that was launched in Chennai in 2003. The metropolis’s first outlet (now defunct) opened in Spencer Plaza adopted by Alwarpet, Vadapalani, and Anna Nagar amongst others. Over the years, the institution managed to arrange retailers in Bengaluru, Delhi, and Hyderabad.

Leather Care and Laundry’s providers first began in Delhi given the massive demand for restoring luxurious equipment. The model has now launched these providers to Chennai too. Apart from these in the town, purchasers from Bengaluru and Hyderabad additionally ship their equipment right here to be restored. While they obtain luxurious manufacturers like Bottega Veneta and Yves Saint Laurent, restorations additionally increase to excessive avenue manufacturers like Charles and Keith, and Aldo.

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Ravindran R

It takes round per week to repair them based mostly on the character of service required. Services embrace concealing scratches with leather-based of the identical color and texture, scraping the highest layer, recolouring heels, edging (colouring the perimeters of luggage and shoes) restoring color utilizing Italian pigments, filling holes in baggage with leather-based and dry cleansing. “Cleaning is a big aspect when it comes to shoes,” says Abhishek, including that luxurious merchandise must be dealt with a sure approach. “Some high-end customers want their footwear shining all the time. So, after each wear it comes to us. Cleaning services start at around ₹600 based on the condition of the shoe, while spot correction for bags and shoes start at ₹1,000,” he says. They at present have a four-member staff that operates out of a unit in Kotturpuram. Their abilities are upgraded periodically with consultants from Bangkok and the Philippines being introduced in.

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Ravindran R

Abhishek first noticed these providers in the Philippines. “I saw the market outside India very responsive to this idea where people buy luxury leather goods and get it fixed. I decided to bring it to India,” he says, including “Looking after a shoe is far better than buying many more.”

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