Rakoh's Italian-made boots borrow from hiking and running-shoe design for greater comfort.
Kohlberg had begun pursuing his MBA in 2016, in the hopes of one day establishing his own brand of surf or ski gear. But the dilemma of finding presentable yet non-punishing shoes scrambled those priorities.“Let’s just solve the problem and go from there.”
Kohlberg—who had no background in fashion or footwear design outside of a single course in college—soon found himself presenting the idea to an interested party that made introductions to Italian shoemaking factories on his behalf. While an outsider to the industry, Kohlberg used the opportunity to soak up as much knowledge as he could.
“Every time someone picks up the shoe, they’re shocked by how light it is,” says Rakoh founder Raphael Kohlberg.“I wanted to see every step of the production process,” he recalls. “I wanted to understand all the things we can play with here, all the decisions that we could make, all the different choices and figure out how they add up to something that’s really beautiful but also comfortable.”, which debuted in 2019.
The result is something that Kohlberg believes passes the dress test but does so without the first days or weeks of foot-straining pain. “They will break in, but it’s not a shoe that you have suffer to break in. They’re comfortable from the very first go,” he says. While Rakoh—which Kohlberg named by merging the first two letters of his first name with the first three of his last—began with Chelsea boots, it’s not limiting itself to one style. Currently available for pre-order is a
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