Posted: Apr 8, 2011 1:16 PM
(NBC) - A young Chinese designer is all the rage in China - he's using old newspapers to make shoes.
27-year-old Yang Guang is now not only doing brisk business in China, but is also selling his shoes in the US and Europe.
Inspired by his grandmother, who used to weave sandals out of straw, Yang started his line three years ago, but only sold his first pair of newspaper shoes last April.
From his humble beginnings, Yang now runs a factory with more than 200 workers, most of them female farmers from the surrounding countryside.
Yang's factory is able to produce an average of 5,000 pairs of newspapers shoes a month, all made to order.
MY THOUGHTS
There's just no end to what people can come up with.
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