Hi everyone and welcome to new money where we talk to movers and shakers about how they made it.

I'm your host Rose Marie Miller and I have the pleasure of speaking with luxury shoe designer Sophia Webster.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

So you wrote this beautiful emphasis on beautiful book.

Oh my gosh, I love your shoes.

What inspired you to write this book at this time in your life?

Well, I didn't set out to write a book. I had set myself a challenge on New Year's Eve

20 to sketch a shoe a day from my archive because the pace of fashion is very fast, you know,

it's a real thirst for newness, it's one season to the next, and I have an art background. I didn't come into fashion. I didn't grow up loving

fashion. It was more art and I sort of fell into shoes. So for me, my shoes are like little works of art and I approached them as I would

a piece of art. So sketching each shoe a day was like a I started as a bit of a mindfulness challenge

but as I was going and drawing these shoes different memories just kept coming to me memories of inspiration

stories behind the shoes you know just the experience of being a young entrepreneur and the roller coaster of what that is.

Yeah, all these memories just started popping up and it was almost like putting a bit of a jigsaw together and I

guess that book is like the whole picture of of my journey.

Yeah and before we get into that roller coaster because I am curious I want to talk about you sketching these

shoes. I saw the sketches you have it somewhere. Yeah it's like a pullout.

Yeah there's 365. The 365.

365. up and go sketch shoes. Could you talk about that?

So the realities of like running a business takes you

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