David Aaron Siskin Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Advisor to founder

Advisor to the founder for all footwear and small leather goods, new development and production. In 2021 built an exclusive manufacturing and design studio in El Paso, Texas.In 2013, Mickey Ashmore created a magical pair of leather shoes with a family of craftsmen in southeast Turkey. He called them Sabahs, an original shoe based on a traditional.

New York, NY, US

Involved from the founding recieving first equity offering. Directing manufacturing coordination and design and production order management. Involved in coordinating all aspects of production placement with the factories, ensuring seamless communication among different departments and teams involved in the product development and manufacturing processes.

SHOE LAB NYC is a footwear technology company, navigating footwear businesses from mind to market.

An innovative group of hand woven leather shoes, made in NY.

Design, merchandise and present leather footwear line developed for Steve Madden branded division.

Culver City, California, US

Managed the creation of a line of branded footwear. Directing manufacturing coordination and design and production order management. Involved in coordinating all aspects of production placement with the factories, ensuring seamless communication among different departments and teams involved in the product development and manufacturing processes.

Design director for multiple brands, including modernvice.com, managed in-house design studio and shoe manufacturing facility in the heart of the garment district of New York City.

Designed and built shoe line, interacting closely with bebe founder and creative director, Manny Mashouf.

New York, New York, US

Global sourcing, material and technical director for footwear.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK

Designed footwear with the Levi's label, interacting with the Levi's corporate licencing group and sourced and finished sales samples manufactured in China.

US

Working to enhance the Nine West brand by building the 9 West Vintage America Collection of casual shoes. Responsible for the designing and building the footwear and handbag lines for the Rachel Roy diffusion brand.

US

Designer/Line builder for the AK Anne Klein division with special involvement with the AK ANNE KLEIN SPORT line.

Ladies footwear and accessory store on 61st and 3rd Avenue in NYC. 80% footwear self developed and branded. Tripled sales per square foot in two years.

Footwear design consultancy working for well known apparel and footwear brands in a variety of markets and price points.-Nicole Farhi London-Isaac Mizrahi-Ellen Tracy Collection-Michael Kors-AK Anne Klienamong othersFull service Spanish design studio/agent working with clothing designers, international multi-store retailers and branded wholesale companies.

Creative Director and designer.

Created, designed and distributed David Aaron an internationally distributed brand of fashion women's shoes. Opened and managed New York administration and sales office/showroom with fifteen employees. Owned and managed a Spanish buying office managing twelve employees reaching annual sales of $5 million. Designed sold and produced three proprietary brands.

JAZZ was a $25 million, nationally distributed brand of women's fashion footwear.

US

Gloria Vanderbilt was licensed to Nine West through the Mujani Group. The division's gross sales at the time of my departure was $80 million all production was in Brazil through the Topazio agency.

Women's branded footwear wholesale and retail business. partnered with a Mexican conglomerate. Built component factories for innersoles, prefabricated outer soles and heel EVA injection, rebuilt shoe factory buying and importing machinery and technology from Italy. Created and marketed three successful brands reaching $10 million in annual sales. Opened.

Product development for various women's footwear divisions within the company. Living and working full time in Italy while working directly with designers of licensed brands: Calvin Klein, Geoffrey Beene, Mabel Julianelli, among others.

Apprenticed under Dorino Della Valle.

Modellismo, Pattern Making, Footwear Design, Studies Of Footwear Leathers, Lasts And Components

Art History, Drawing, Sculpture, Painting, Anatomy

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Theatrical Lighting And Design