#HOWSHEDIDIT, Tracey Neuls For Found&Flourish
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Tracey Neuls answered a few questions for Found&Flourish
What was the moment that everything changed for you?
I was designing Sports Clothing for companies like Nike and Falke before taking up Footwear Design at Cordwainers College. When I graduated, I began creating catwalk shoes for a Clothing Designer. The collection was well received so catwalk turned into production footwear very quickly. I was sent to Italy to develop my designs and worked there fumbling away learning the language. The pay was low, the hours were long and the demands stressful. I remember the day quite vividly when I thought to myself that I surely couldn’t be that worse off doing this for myself and my own label. That week I began my first collection. I had such good luck. One of the agents in Italy, who worked with me on the clothing side, randomly asked if I wanted to visit a shoe factory – the best one in the world. The rest is history…
Read the entire interview here.