fessing you'd associate with a multinational luxury brand but it here in a remote french village that louis tang has chosen to sass up shop and this is why . the whole luxury trend depends on our designs when the artisans leave the artists follow what is taking place here is the convergence of artists of artisans in the same place shores the longevity of the luxury business and fronts france is number one in the world in luxury it's because of these leather workshops. in. this region and western france was once renowned for its leather industry some 400 factories once made shoes that were distributed across the entire country in the 1990 s. production moved to countries with lower wages only a museum remains to tell the story of a golden age he did worked in the industry for 44 years. even. if they'd foreseen the crisis a bit earlier we might have turned towards luxury goods because we had the expertise. and if we'd gone into luxury goods we could have charged higher prices i think if we had we could have maybe held our own for much longer i don't know the factory worked out didn't survive but n