Hideo Motoike founded an order-made leather products brand Leatherarts& crafts moto in 1971. His two sons who grew up with leather started Leather& silver moto.

Masaru Okuyama picked Hong Kong as his business location after he finished shoemaking school because it is an intersection of China and the west for both culture and economy. Okuyama used to worked as an expat in Hong Kong while he was working at a jewellery company. His customers are mainly local...

The idea to start his own shoe company came from the experience Tesuji Ueda had working at shoe stores and talking with customers who had difficulty finding shoes that fit perfectly. With this gap in the market he set out to study shoemaking in Mannina in Italy. He returned to Japan in 2002 and...