We all know that toting along a bouquet of flowers, an extra bottle of bubbles and maybe a plate of appetizers or a crusty baguette goes a long way with holiday hosts, but you know what goes a long way with fellow guests? A few good questions. Party tip #406: Ask people about themselves. Be interesting and interested. Get folks to open up—about their lives, their work and the year we’re all about to put behind us.
While we weren’t in a darkened room celebrating with Malone Souliers‘ creative heads Mary Alice Malone and Roy Luwolt (above), just eyeing their killer heels and iconic booties is a party, so bear with us here. We lobbed a couple of conversation-worthy queries about 2015 their way, and we’re sharing them here so that you might take our lead and run with it—and learn something along the way.
The Thread: What’s the best thing that happened to you and your business in the last year?
Roy Luwolt: Malone Souliers hit early puberty and broke multiple milestones at least four years sooner than projected, from staff and product development to global penetration and sales targets.
Mary Alice Malone: Also, Michelle Obama loves and wears our shoes, so there’s that!
Malone Souliers’ Maureen pointy-toe mule
What are your resolutions for the year ahead?
Mary Alice: Our very product, now being in the major markets and retailers we hoped for when we were founding the business, challenges and informs us, particularly from a design perspective, and as to the sensitivities of the needs of our consumer, per culture and persona. To that end, I can’t afford to be that wide-eyed wishful designer, but one who informatively caters to the challenges of our competitors. It’s grow-up time, pre-2016 and beyond.
Roy: What she said, plus, we’re about to launch three critical collaborations: one with a most exquisite, most idolized philanthropist, another with a showstopping (rather literally) international luxury ready-to-wear label, and the third with a global athletic brand. Each of these is a different yet adjacent marriage to the very innovation of Malone Souliers—as MA said, a bar-and-a-half raised.
What if you had to pick three words to describe your approach for 2016, professionally and otherwise?
Mary Alice: Sharp, established, self-aware.
Roy: Discontent, finesse, unexpected.
SHOP: Malone Souliers
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