S5 Ep 6: From Construction to Shoe designer with own brand: Laura See

Laura See has always loved shoes and fashion. At school she thought about becoming a fashion journalist but life took her on a different path. She worked in construction, and although she liked her job, she never really loved it - and she never felt really fulfilled.Then something awful happened. A life-changing event which made Laura’s world stop turning. In those difficult days she started sketching shoe designs as her therapy.Laura saw how short life is - and so she applied for a design course in Florence in Italy and won a scholarship for it. She spent a year there learning shoe design. But when Laura returned, the hurdles continued. She received constant no’s from the industry for an apprenticeship. So, despite lots of people telling her not to, she started her own shoe brand.  https://www.lauraseelondon.com/Less than a year later, Laura’s shoes have been in a pop-up shop in John Lewis in Oxford and they’ve been featured in national magazines. Laura is doing all this around her day job back in construction, financing it all herself. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenextchapterbyelliebarker.substack.com