That is the nature of businesses. To succeed over 'everyone else' (ESPECIALLY in New York), you have to sell yourself and believe that you have the best product out there. People like him, whether you like it or not, worked extremely hard to get to this point. To have the opportunity to even...
I mean if you just simply look at his product line on rf.com (sebago and doc martins), you can see he's separating those brand of shoes from his other brand (Kith) for a reason. For what specific reason? you'd have to ask him personally. A contractual business decision i would assume?
It's quite corny on both ends: people who don't like the creasing and people who put these human emotions to material objects saying they like the creasing because it adds "character"? are you kidding me? It's a shoe. lol. what character is that? a shoe that had the privilage of losing...