How Many People Make a Prada Shoe?
One of the shows on cable that I find fascinating is Discovery Channel’s How It’s Made. This show features the manufacturing process for four or five products per show. A typical half hour might be filled with the making of plastic bags, twinkies, hockey pucks and toilets. It’s a simple concept, but nearly impossible to turn away from. I figured there has to be a few videos out there of shoes being made and in fact, there are! This is the making of a ballet flat and a leather boot in a (most likely US) Prada factory.
Another cool video to check out is how ballet shoes are made, and subsequently broken down by the ballerina for use.
Reference: How It’s Made
This entry was contributed by Heather Moore.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am
history channel has similar kind of show..they cover one product per show.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Interesting show, and I think I have seen one similar to this. I guess I never have given much thought to all that goes into making a ballet shoe, so luckily, I can tune in to shoes like this — er, um, shows like this to become enlightened.