How Kendall Reynolds Took a Bad Breakup and Created a Celeb-Loved Shoe Brand

Reynolds explains that her shoe recreation really blossomed earlier than Kendall Miles took root. Her curiosity was piqued in the identical place many younger fashionistas start their love affair with fashion: their mom’s wardrobe. “My mother was such a shoe lady,” she says, “I’d all the time play in her closet. I am a measurement larger than her so I’d squeeze my toes into her Manolo Blahniks and her Louboutins.” However Reynolds’ mom noticed the potential for the model from the start. As soon as the budding designer began distancing herself from a profession in finance, she started dipping her toes into the inventive outlet that might take her to designing luxurious footwear. She started with a number of drawing courses right here and there, a number of intro Italian language courses, and finally landed in a shoe design program in Milan at Arsutoria. Along with her mom’s blessing and monetary backing, and her pre-existing enterprise observe, she targeted her senior yr at USC on getting her enterprise off the bottom and into the palms of shoe lovers in all places.

“Everybody’s asking ‘The place are you going to go work, what jobs are you making use of for?’ I simply could not see myself going to work for any person at the moment. I used to be so hell-bent on doing my very own factor, constructing my very own lane, and discovering my very own path,” Reynolds explains of her journey beginning her enterprise in school. “Right here we’re 9 years later. And through that point you are seeing your folks get married and have households. You are seeing your folks get raises and get promoted,” however her option to observe a distinct path additionally introduced some doubts alongside the way in which, questioning if she ought to have been following that very same construction.