Company Name: POMP Inc

Brand: Gaupo and Maldita

Website: www.gauposhoecouture.com

Established: 1990

Country of Origin: Philippines

Area: UK and Ireland

Product Description:
GAUPO is a luxury brand dedicated to the design and manufacture of fine footwear for a specialized clientele of successful, stylish women. The brand is not just for anyone. It is for the woman who knows who she is and what she wants. A brilliant mix of impeccable taste and fashion forwardness, the Gaupo woman is an icon of individual style.

Through consistency and diligence, GAUPO brand aspires to eventually earn the loyalty of fashionable women around the world. Under the creative direction of distinguished designer Cesar Gaupo, the brand aspires to cater to an international clientele of women who believe that true style and self-expression start from toes up.

MALDITA is the medium priced collection from Gaupo shoe couture aimed at the middle price in the shoe market.

No of Collections per annum: 2

Sizes: 3 - 8

Average Prices in £:

Commission: 15% negotiable

Collection Size: 24

Age Group: 30+

Competitive to: Jimmy Choo and all top end shoe brands

Sits Alongside: Quality shoe labels

Exhibitions: Hong Kong Fashion Fair

My Comments:
Cesar Gaupo is a prominent icon in the fashion industry and is famous with his distinct craftsmanship flavoured with inherent elegance and sophistication. He is unquestionably one of the most celebrated fashion designers in the history of Philippine fashion, and achieved both locally and internationally. His experience has spanned couture and ready to wear. He is the designer responsible for the worldwide success of Shanghai Tang from Hong Kong. His expertise hastened because of the vision of enveloping as an eponymous fashion label stretches to shoe couture.
The wife of the Philippines president Imelda Marcos, was famous for her collection of shoes. The current President of the Philippines Her Excellency, Ms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, continues this tradition by wearing shoes made by Cesar Gaupo as do numerous media personalities.
In order to acknowledge his international reputation, Cesar Gaupo was recently offered a free stand at MIDEC in Paris by the organisers of MIDEC .
Gaupo have chosen the UK and Ireland as the first steps in the international expansion plans backed by one of the largest retail groups in the Philippines. Judging by the success of Gaudo at MIDEC I expect this collection will become very well known in the UK in the future.