00:01Well, we discovered the Tavis about three years ago.
00:06A client wanted me to make them for her, and after a few months we decided to go through the process so we could make them.
00:15because it took us a couple of years and that's where we started with the park, we made it for her
00:20And we realized that there were a lot of designs.
00:25So we decided to go through the entire manufacturing process so we could bring it to market.
00:35Finding the right shoe last isn't easy, and it's hard to find someone who can make them and make them comfortable.
00:44Several lasts because there are so many designs, as I've said when we go to the fairs
00:48We've ended up in a Tavis multiverse because, apart from my passion for shoes...
00:53Well, we discovered that it's a Tavis multiverse and I come up with all the designs I can think of.
00:58Then, after we located the last, we started to take out each design.
01:03And each design has a different process.
01:05There are the moldings, the leathers, the textures, the heels
01:10Because the heels aren't available on the market either, you have to have them made.
01:18We artists are inspired by everything we see; that's just how we are.
01:23Things come to me suddenly, like color combinations, textures, and tips.
01:32In this world everything is done, my dear, everything is already done.
01:37So, for us, inspirations are things that have already been done
01:42And we take a little bit from here, a little bit from there, and we come up with something new, but in fact, everything is already there.
01:48made.
01:50I'm from Medellín, my whole family is from Medellín, from that area over there.
01:54My dad was a shoemaker from about the age of 30,
02:00So we really grew up with art.
02:03We are nine siblings and three of them also own a factory and therefore know about shoes.
02:11So my dad contributed the knowledge he had, and my mom, because my mom also worked as a guard.
02:16And when I decided to start manufacturing, Robert was just a year old
02:23And since my other older son, Aylan, was a little older, I decided to start making
02:28And from there we have manufactured.
02:29We've now consolidated it with my children.
02:32When we arrived here in Bogotá with my dad and my mom,
02:35We lived in the centennial building that's located there, near Restrepo.
02:38My dad had the factory there for many years.
02:41After Dad died, we became independent.
02:47We were with my children in Carabelas and we've been here this year,
02:52Because we expanded, we expanded the factory, so from this year we are here, in Venice.
03:00Shoes are a true art form because everything is done by hand.
03:02So you have to have a taste for what you do, passion, love.
03:06I learned to do the entire shoe-making process, everything.
03:09I'll make you a shoe, any shoe you want, I'll make it from scratch.
03:14So it's a gift that God gave me, so I have the ability to lead them all.
03:24Here at the factory, right?
03:26I take care of everything related to the workshop, and I also have to attend to the clients.
03:30Why do I like to attend to them personally?
03:32Because I like being friends.
03:34So, we women are cool, right?
03:36We women must be here to support each other,
03:39to support each other and move forward together.
03:43I don't agree that women should be envious, what's the point?
03:47If God provides for everyone, then yes?
03:49So it makes me feel special when a client speaks to me,
03:52He says to me, "Oh, but you're Rose, oh, how cool, I wanted to meet you."
03:56And all that story, that makes me feel special.
03:58and makes you feel that all the effort and everything we do here
04:02It's worth it every day.
04:10I love my country, I love Bogotá even though I'm not from here.
04:14I am very grateful to Bogotá because Bogotá is a city for everyone.
04:18If you can't get it here, you won't get it anywhere, really.
04:24So the challenge has been to really take possession
04:27Because it's very, very difficult to start a business.
04:31Well, here we don't have the real support that we manufacturers should have.
04:38or anyone who is a businesswoman
04:41Because we compete with everything they let in from outside, right?
04:45Imagine us in the TikTok comments,
04:49I like girls, no, you can get them in Temu for 60,000 pesos.
04:56The Tavis, yes?
04:57So supposedly it shouldn't be like that.
05:00because they shouldn't allow so much stuff to come in here,
05:04so much importing here
05:07because then we don't have the possibility
05:09to be able to offer our product as it should be.
05:17I want to go to Paris; it's about putting my brand outside of Colombia.
05:21We are known all over the world.
05:23People know us through TikTok and trade fairs.
05:26Imagine that when we made the Tavis hairy ones,
05:28The customers were posting on TikTok
05:31that not even Margiela had dared to make hair Tavis.
05:34I recently realized that when one exposes oneself on social media
05:37It becomes a point of reference for people.
05:39Well, I think it's very important
05:42that when people think of me
05:45or hear my name
05:47see in me a woman
05:51entrepreneurial and hardworking.
05:53It's important.
05:55And let them think that the art that God gave us
06:00because they are gifts that God gives us
06:02Well, one should share them,
06:05that one must...
06:07not only to bring them into the world and expose them
06:10but also to share them.
06:12We did a campaign with the little fish
06:15We show the world what we want to do with our factory.
06:18Yes, we want to expand
06:20And we want to do so many things.
06:22We want to teach people
06:24because the art of shoemaking has been lost.
06:26So, yes, I would like them to have me.
06:28as a reference point for that,
06:30of everything we want to do
06:32to help the other.
06:34Thank you!
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06:40Thank you!
