<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>wekend journal</title><description>Notes from the wekend studio.</description><link>https://wekend.shop/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>How we authenticate vintage Prada</title><link>https://wekend.shop/journal/authenticating-vintage-prada/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wekend.shop/journal/authenticating-vintage-prada/</guid><description>What to look at first on a 1990s Prada Sport mule — the stamp, the lining stitch, the heel construction — and what to look at last.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Authentication</category><category>Prada</category><category>Vintage</category></item><item><title>A weekend with a Manolo restorer</title><link>https://wekend.shop/journal/nyc-cobblers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wekend.shop/journal/nyc-cobblers/</guid><description>Inside the Brooklyn workshop where most of our heels are reset. Why a forty-year-old shoemaker won&amp;rsquo;t Topy a 1990s Manolo, and what he does instead.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Restoration</category><category>NYC</category><category>Cobblers</category></item><item><title>Coach Soho Stadium, 1980-1995: a brief history</title><link>https://wekend.shop/journal/coach-soho-stadium/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wekend.shop/journal/coach-soho-stadium/</guid><description>The fifteen years when Coach made some of the best leather shoes in America, why it stopped, and how to spot a piece from the run.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Coach</category><category>History</category><category>Vintage</category></item></channel></rss>