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During this morning’s perusal of the news,  a multimedia article from New York Times,  “Fashion on the Street – Some Imagination”.  It’s a multimedia slide show, so may take some time to load all the photos, you may see blank screen while the narrator/author Bill Cunningham describes what he sees.

While everyone’s expecting a down year in the footwear industry, it’s interesting to note that some companies are experiencing record sales or up years. Again, the key is to produce something that people want.  Fashion shoes are by and large an emotional purchase, and how those shoes are designed and marketed plays a big part in a brands success. Read the rest of this entry »

Well just in case you were wondering where I was at for the last month and a half since the last post, lets just say I was at the Dark Side of Shoemaking.

Lets just way working for a Chinese owned shoe factory was (and I say WAS) interesting.  Being the only Laowai was even more interesting, racism is alive and well in China.  Not out in the open, but there nonetheless.

I’m not going to go into the gory details as to what happened, but I will give some observations on the footwear industry from the factory side as it has seemed to change quite a bit.

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