Apr 20, 2021
In episode 231, Kestrel welcomes Lauren Tanaka-Fortune and Rory Fortune, the cofounders of Goods & Services, to the show. A modern repair shop in Los Angeles, Goods & Services specializes in sneaker repair.
“I think we just have to start changing our mentality around
consumption and buy things that you really love and can potentially
pass down one day. I think that when you buy things that are made
better, you can wear them longer — I mean, eventually they’ll be a
cool vintage piece, right? We just need to get away from this need
for ‘more, more more’ and get back to sort of the olden days of
really buying something that you love and wearing it forever.”
-Lauren Tanaka-Fortune, Co-Owner of Goods & Services
On this week’s show, Rory and Lauren each share their unique experience, working within the conventional fashion industry, and what “aha moment” led them to want to reassess the way they were working in fashion.
Rory explains a bit more on what led him down the path of learning more about shoe repair, and how that led he and Lauren to open their own repair shop in 2019.
While Goods & Services offers repair for all shoe types, they specialize in sneaker repair. Rory and Lauren explain why they think we are not typically taught that our sneakers can be repaired, and how, through their custom resole process, they can set your sneakers up for years and years of future repair.
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Global Garbs, Lauren’s sustainable fashion magazine
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“Sneaker Drops Keep Coming. Are They Sustainable?” in Vogue Business