Seychelles Footwear’s President and Director of Product on Overseeing the Brand Together

Sari Ratsula and Gabriel Morales have an unmistakable witty banter that adds to their dynamic working relationship. The president and director of product, respectively, have been at the helm of the company for almost 10 years. The energetic pair oversees all of the brands in the firm’s portfolio, including Seychelles, BC Footwear, SEY Collection and Eight Fifteen. Footwear News let Ratsula and Morales take the reins for a candid conversation about standout styles, their balancing act as a team and other topics. Here are the best outtakes. GABRIEL MORALES: Besides me, what inspires you? SARI RATSULA: What inspires me is seeing girls on the street wearing our shoes that we worked on together. Seeing them happy, that’s what inspires me. That also challenges my mind and makes me wonder how we can keep doing that. GM: That’s very inspiring to me also. In our industry, that’s the ultimate satisfaction: to see the consumer wearing our shoes. We’re excited about our product. Hats off to Gucci for giving us a license to try different things. The label’s [innovation] with design — and not just with shoes, but apparel, too — created excitement to try different things. SR: When we started in early 2000, I was questioning

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