history

My adventure with Gucio shoes began when my oldest son started to walk. I wanted to buy some new shoes for him but it turned out not to be an easy task. I visited a large number of shoe stores in Cracow, where I live, and I did not find anything that would satisfy me. Shoes offered to children were too tight in the toes area or had too stiff sole. Other had a very hard, cutting in heel, and some were made of an artificial material imitating leather.

Some shoes that I could accept were far beyond my financial reach. I am a certified designer of shoes. I graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts where I majored in industrial forms and I have a diploma of Italian Design School. Finally, as despite of long researches I did not find what I was looking for, so I decided to make the perfect shoes by myself. The first samples I designed and made were very successful. But after conversations with some of the shoe manufacturers, it appeared that launching a production of my shoes in their factories would not be so simple. They accepted the idea, but they had no courage to invest in such a new, not-made-before product.
Therefore, I started to manufacture those shoes on my own. At the same time, I presented my project to the Polish Patent Committee.

Nowadays, my shoes are worn by my three children, my friends' children and the growing number of my satisfied clients' friends, who realised what is the best for their children's feet.