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The founder's approach to footwear design is unique because she did not have any prior fashion or footwear design experience. Instead of focusing on designing shoes that are super trendy for a specific season, she took a different route by focusing on creating comfortable and functional footwear for female entrepreneurs and founders. Her inspiration for the design comes from a dedication to providing comfort from the ground up, rather than just creating aesthetically pleasing shoes with added padding for comfort. This approach sets her apart from traditional fashion school training, where the focus may lean more towards current trends and aesthetics.

GDL Candace Chen

Yeah . What is the difference you say that you're coming from uh that you saw success based compared to like people that are going to fashion school ? Like what is the , what is the difference for you ?

GDL Candace Chen

So that's where the um the uh basically like the Mitzel , how it was prototype and the heel part um genius as a mechanical engineer , not someone that went to like a fashion . Did you go to fashion school as well ? Zero fashion experience ?

GDL Candace Chen

Did you go to fashion school as well ? Zero fashion experience ? Yeah .

GDL Candace Chen

They are gorgeous shoes . Uh For somebody that has like had no fashion background , you clearly knew what you were doing . I have to ask this question because I do believe um at a very young age when we're little , we know what it is that we want to do .

GDL Candace Chen

Yeah . So , um , I , I started off by , uh , because I had zero experience in footwear design and zero experience in fashion . So I , yeah , I never wore high heels .