


Italian High Quality Shoes Handmade in China Can high quality handcrafted shoes be made in China? Yes! The modern shoemaking trades have been thriving in China for more than 30 years. Shoemaking is a mature industry in China and there are thousands of skilled shoemakers with […]

Handbag Factory Tour On a recent factory tour in China I was invited to visit a friend’s designer handbag factory. Since I was formerly bag designer, I was especially excited to have a look inside to see what was going on. The purse factory we toured was making medium […]

How Designer Handbags are Made As a shoe designer you may be called upon to work on many different soft goods projects. My design career started with bag design, moved on to footwear design, and now I work in both fields every day. You will find that […]