The Asian high quality shoe business, outdoors Japan, is rather more advanced than what most Westerners are likely to imagine. And extra is occurring – quick. On this episode, we hear shoe skilled Robin Chang, founding father of the Taiwanese shoe retailer Oak Room, discuss Asian-made traditional footwear.
Robin Chang. Image: Piliph
Robin Chang began the main shoe retailer in Taiwan, Oak Room, situated within the capital Taipei, over 5 years in the past. He has been concerned within the shoe enterprise for a few years, and is taken into account one of many foremost consultants on the traditional shoe business in Asia.
The Oak Room retailer entrance. Image: Oak Room (high image: Yim Shoemaker)
On this episode we are going to give attention to the state of affairs for factories making traditional high quality footwear in addition to bespoke shoemakers in Asia, outdoors of Japan. It’s a subject that many in Europe or the US don’t know a lot about. Issues are occurring shortly on this a part of the world, and this business has come additional than many imagine. We’ll discuss how China has already moved away from being a low price manufacturing nation for footwear, these days it’s international locations like Laos and Vietnam the place manufacturing of high quality footwear is rising the quickest. This has meant that we now see a whole lot of new Chinese language unbiased shoemakers making totally handmade footwear, raised in a shoe business that in components have moved on, and now due to social media they will attain clients themselves.
We additionally discuss for instance how the very reasonably priced, typically very well-made Asian made high quality footwear will probably be pushing European producers, as they arrive into play as correct competitors, we are going to go into the state of affairs with clients within the home international locations, and far, rather more. You will have a really informative half an hour in entrance of you, take pleasure in.
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