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Fashion companies in France tend to go one of two ways: either they fail or they prosper, before being bought out by a powerful luxury group. But some companies manage to resist that fate, facing economic crises, the challenges of a globalized economy and now the pandemic, all on their own. But how exactly do they do it and what motivates them? We met independent shoemakers Arche in the Loire Valley and Paris-based Weston to find out.
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