Greenhill Alum Mickey Ashmore '05 Featured in D Magazine

Mickey Ashmore used to live in a world filled with a nine-to-five job at a hedge fund, computers, and financial planning. That was, until he was gifted with a pair of traditional Turkish shoes while working for Microsoft in Istanbul. “I put them on my feet and realized they were extremely comfortable,” he says. “I wore them everywhere—to weddings, out at night, and while traveling. I literally didn’t want to take them off.”

Ashmore eventually moved back to the United States, still wearing his slip-on shoes. “After a while, I wanted a new pair, and some of my friends wanted pairs of their own,” he says. “I was introduced to the shoemaker and his family, who have been making shoes for more than 300 years. After about six months of working with the him on the designs, Sabah was born.”