Marquina Shoemaker is bent on bringing the shine back to Marikina one pair at a time. 

On the other hand, Marquina Shoemaker is paving its own path by pushing for quality shoes for the high-end market. Instead of competing with cheap imports, it aims to create a new standard instead.

Thanks to online smarts, Juancho Del Rosario, Kayne Litonjua, and Patrick Kahn, founders of Marquina Shoemaker, kicked new life into the industry one handcrafted pair at a time.

“We had no capital. Nothing. Zero,” recalled Del Rosario.

Marikina City can produce all kinds of shoes. They can outfit an entire public school system of a province.

They can outfit all the Tamaraw security agencies there—but something that hasn’t been showcased in a while is how Filipino craftsmanship can produce world-class fashionable footwear,” Kayne shares.