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It was a pleasure filming with you Rumor has it you have been contracted by again today Jared. Tell me a little bit a big shoe company to make shoes. Any about your website. truth to that rumor? JaredFiorovich.com is a tool I use to show my original footwear designs, and custom hand made footwear. I may start to sell small runs of handmade footwear and goods on my website. It’s a process and if I’m making shoes for people to skate in, I need to test them first. There is truth. I have been contracted a couple of times to make shoe samples for Adidas. So you are a shoe designer that can also make prototypes? As far as the services I can offer for footwear. I like it to take the product from start to finish. From product brief to branding, concept de- velopment, design an d rendering, creating How long have you been making tech packs for factories and also personally shoes by hand? I made a pair from scratch when I was 16. making patterns and wearable samples to test I took apart a basketball to use for the concepts. rubber side walls and repurpose the tread How do we contact with you? out of off the bottom of an old cupsole. Unfortunately someone threw them away @JaredMaxFiorovich on instagram [email protected] email while I was working at the skate shop. Damn, that sucks. How many regular Watch Jared Skate each of these shoes at shoes and skate shoes have you skidmarkskatemag.com made by hand? I’ve made dozens and dozens of proto- types. About 6 pairs from scratch that I have made and skate tested. A lot more custom and modified shoes. I’m the middle of a 7 shoe run of women’s shoes. And have made some other causal shoes, slippers, etc. THE PARKING BLOCK