Property News · February 19, 2017

Cobbling together: the Brooklynites who gather to make handcrafted shoes


Former corporate fashion designers get ‘close to the product’ at Brooklyn Shoe Space, a shoemaking collective focused on sharing the ‘addicting’ tradeIt turns out that there are a lot of heels in the shoe business. “You would be surprised how much [shoe design] in the corporate world is just copied! I was a little nobody and I wanted to say this isn’t right to the director of Topshop,” Elizabeth Dunn, a bespoke shoemaker and London transplant, tells me, her voice rising with emotion.At Brooklyn Shoe Space, a professional shoemaker co-working space and collective that also offers classes for the public on how to make everything from simple moccasins to stitched oxfords and high heels, former employees of Big Shoe are hoping they can change the industry, one step at a time. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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