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David Aaron Siskin is a seasoned footwear entrepreneur with over four decades of remarkable experience in shoe design and brand development. With a track record of success, he has dedicated his career to crafting footwear brands and fostering partnerships with ready-to-wear (RTW) designers, brand proprietors, and licensees across a spectrum of dress, casual, and athletic footwear categories.

David has a thorough knowledge of shoemaking technologies, leathers and components.  Throughout his career Siskin has gathered valuable relationships with an array of international footwear manufacturers and suppliers, maintaining excellent, cooperative and successful relationships.

Recent Experience:

• Investor/Advisor/Consultant  MARGAUX

  • Resposibilities

    • Designer

    • Technical fit expert

    • Product development/sourcing/production management

• Advisor/Consultant SABAH

  • Material sourcing and development

  • New product concept development

  • Design consultation with collaborating brands.

  • Designed and built a shoe design studio and production factory in El Paso, Texas.

• Designed and developed branded footwear for the Elyse Walker retail chain. Sourced from Italy and Spain.

• Consulted for Alice + Olivia for sourcing and fit. Sourced from Brazil and China.

• Partnered in and managed a New York City shoe factory and design studio while designing and building two shoe brands.

• MODERN VICE

• GIRAFFE WALK

Relevant Past Experience:

·      Built, owned and operated a full service design studio with multiple clients addressing multiple global markets and footwear categories, designing and producing unbranded footwear.

·      Created, marketed and eventually sold a successful international footwear brand, DAVID AARON, wholesale business, DIVA INTERNATIONAL and Spanish footwear design and sourcing agency, DESIGN STUDIO S.L., to a public corporation, STEVE MADDEN (SHOO).

Speaks fluent English, Italian and Spanish.