After a good German education and a brief excursion into surveying, Lutz Kilian Klüter embarked on his apprenticeship as an orthopaedic shoemaker. His passion for beautiful shoes was born. Even while doing his community service caring for handicapped adults, he built his first workshop to make lasts for hand made shoes. Between 1990 and 1995, he worked with the best quality shoe manufacturers in Europe, including Terra Plana by Charles Bergmans, undertaking the marketing of their products throughout Germany and beyond. Between the collection selling seasons, he worked in shoe manufacturing plants, controlling sample development and improving shoe quality production. After 1995, he worked for a small company creating a completely new integrated shoe collection. Working with a multi disciplinary team, from design to shoe construction and the packaging and promotion materials, a highly successful collection was developed. Since 1997, he has been working as a free lance consultant in the shoe industry worldwide. Projects undertaken include, managing of a relocation of a shoe production facility to another country and setting new production standards, development of a completely new comfort shoe product, producing a computer assisted method for production of made to measure shoes and a range of smaller projects in Europe and the Far East. Some of the companies kilianshoe has worked with www.terraplana.com www.wolky.nl www.loints.nl www.trippen-shoes.com www.naturallook.it www.haferl.com