China Trip #5 Summary!!

Home again and just in time for Christmas!!

  This trip was nothing short of amazing !! 

 I accomplished so much !!

 Met a lot of great people and business contacts, helped develop another Australian up and coming label called Dirty Gremlin, sourced an unknown shoe label to Australia for a new Streetwear shop in Brisbane, finished the development of the Gangstarship clothing co shoes and learnt a lot of new skills which will greatly benefit me in the future .

I will do some new posts on these experiences when I am back in Australia.

Design Legends - RADDISSHME DESIGN HOUSE - Guangzhou, China

I referred in my last post to Ajoy Sahu - founder and director of  RADDISSHME DESIGN HOUSE.

Check out their website here - they are really good to deal with and are a key part of my China sourcing system.  

Here is a sample of some of their GREAT work!

My #1 Partner - Ajoy Sahu - RADDISSHME DESIGN HOUSE!!!

Through my travels here in China I have met many great people and contacts but I would have to say that Ajoy Sahu would have to be one of the most interesting and valuable contacts I have met so far. We met strangely enough through a friend of a friend while playing pool watching football at an Irish pub in China.

Ajoy is the director of a company called Raddisshme Design House , he is an amazing designer and has a very extensive knowledge of the shoe and fashion industry. He has directly done many projects for companies such as PEPSI, MASERATI, ARMANI, HUGO BOSS, DKNY, PRADA, and the list goes on.

Ajoy and I have become very good friends and we spend a lot of time together every time I am in China.
We are currently working on some shoe projects together and really look forward to a long future of business and friendship with him.

Here is some information about Ajoy.

 FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF RADDISSHME DESIGN HOUSE.AJOY SAHU

One of the most inuential casual sports footwear designers of the moment - Ajoy Sahu passionately continues to bring fresh and brand dening products into the market. Since his role in the launch of Prada Sport and Miu Miu footwear collections in the late 90's, Ajoy designed for many leading brands such as DKNY, Paul & Joe and Terra Plana for which he designed the shoe that won the Ethical Fashion Product Award of the year 2007

 From his vast experience, Ajoy Sahu established RADDISSHME Design House (R'Me) in 2004 which bridges the gap between Eastern and Western design by having studios in both London (UK) and Guangzhou (China).  FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF RADDISSHME DESIGN HOUSE. AJOY SAHU

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" All work No play" pfft.....

 A friend of mine has come over to China for a shopping holiday and we also decided to go to Hong Kong and go to Disneyland

Who said " All work no play" ?

Why Angel is my "Network Angel!!"

On my very first trip to China I met a lady that went by the name of Angel . When I first met her I thought she was no more than the manager of a local cafe/restaurant that I met at with other business people on occasion.

We spoke many times about business and I would regularly ask her questions about why the Chinese do things the way they do. She seemed to have a very vast knowledge for business in China, so I asked her what her background was . To my surprise it turned out to be business translating , sourcing , logistics and business management.


I thought to myself that this could turn out to be an extremely valuable contact for me to have.

Since then we have become very good friends, I have rented an apartment from her that she owns in Guangzhou, she has put me in contact with many factories and she has helped me with many dilemas that I have faced with factories and so fourth. She also put me in contact with a very successful law firm in Hong Kong which now helps me with many of my business transactions in China.

What grabbed my attention mostly about Angel was her network of contacts in China and ability to source new and good trustworthy factories. I have had many customers in Australia and New Zealand ask me many times in the past if I can source different products for them in China and most of the time the answer is "yes".

But sometimes it is not that easy, so if it is a product I have not yet sourced or developed I know Angel is the one for the job.

The best thing is, Angel does not go and do the job for me she simply does the research to find the factory and do background checks and so forth to ensure they are a good factory for me to work with and then she puts me in contact with them so I am still in control. 

Angel,  I just love your work!!!


PS - it is just so true what they say in business....

"my network is my net-worth"

Product design & development - From "wo to go"

I am amazed at the business product development process that I use .


Thought - Design - Development - Final product.


Very exciting!!!


The process goes "from this...."

"to this !!!"

Gangstarship shoe project, 2 thumbs up !!

The shoe samples for Gangstarship Clothing Co are going great. Many of the samples are finished, they look perfect and the quality is extremely high.

 I was even able to have some of the samples photographed and I cropped and leveled them to send the customer professional looking photos. Here are some of those photos.