Lesson #1 never ever get on the bad side of anyone who is involved in the process of making your shoes!!! You be nice as pie to everyone and anyone with the company, shoe mistress at your company, everyone that has a hand with your shoes! Don't learn this lesson the hard way! Be nice and considerate and always tell them how much you appreciate all the hard work!!
this is about the 3rd video or so of the making of shoes and I have to say the factory is the cleanest and organized. the shoes also higher end to me. well done Russia.
I have huge appreciation for the skill required for handmade pointe shoes.. But this documentary makes it sound as if no one else does it anymore.. Freed?!
Grishko brand are my favorite brand! they fit my feet like a glove! Its like the Russian people know ballet shoes! There slogan should say, " From Russia with love"!
I love how hard grishkos are. Before my hard shank freed of London’s lasted ONE day. I didn’t bend them, only did releves to break them in. And my hard Russian pointe rubins would last 2 weeks.
@Catherine Vervenne-glew LOL i can’t believe someone replied 7 years later. i’m not a ballet dancer anymore, but i wore grishko’s for the rest of my career! definitely try them out, especially if you’ve got tapered feet !
Thank you so so much! :) I got my first pair yesterday, and they fit like a glove! They look amazing and I don't want to take them off, let alone take my eyes off them! :)
I totally love my Grishko's, which I got as my secong pair after my capezio's died, but in Czech republic these aren't called Grishkovky, but špičkovky from the czech word špička - tip.
Quetzalcoatl Topiltzin The Maya II is built on the Vaganova last but the sole is machine stitched instead of glued by hand. I think Maya I is built on the Fouette last but this I don’t know for sure.
