Luo Yongqiang: Wonderful With Shoelace

Luo Yongqiang is designing shoelace for customers. Newspaper reporter Hou Lulu photo Luo Yongqiang's sunflower shoelace design.

The shape of shoes is fixed and boring, but the nice shoelace can make every pair of shoes different.

In 12 seconds, Luo Yongqiang played a beautiful net shape on a sneaker with two shoelaces.

With the skill of shoelace, Luo Yongqiang became the "skill star" of Chongqing new century department store in the seemingly ordinary position of a salesperson.

　　萌芽·網狀中國結

Luo Yongqiang's handcraft talent was revealed when he was in primary school.

From primary school to middle school, Luo Yongqiang has been a publicity committee member of the class. He has done a good job in the blackboard newspaper, and the teacher has sent the origami homework for a semester. He finished it all in one night.

In early 2002, Luo Yongqiang, a senior high school graduate, was hired as a temporary salesman in Chongqing new century department store.

His first job was to sell sports shoes.

The daily shoe selling life changed in 2004.

Next to the Anta sports shoes counter, a group of new shoes, with colorful coloured shoes, attracted Luo Yongqiang's attention.

Instead of going home immediately after work, he ran to the next counter to study the shoelaces, "colorful and fun".

Luo Yongqiang moved the traditional Chinese knot to his shoelaces, and his first shoelace was also produced: a simple netted Chinese knot.

Slowly, the Anta sports shoes display platform was filled with Luo Yongqiang's works.

All kinds of shoelace works attracted customers, and also attracted the attention of the sales department. Luo Yongqiang was soon hired as a formal contract worker and pferred to the Anta sports shoes counter.

　　癡迷·立體小蝸牛

Luo Yongqiang's interest was greatly aroused by his interest in becoming a professional.

He began to buy all kinds of woven books, studying various shoelaces, from the simplest mesh plane to the three-dimensional sunflower modeling and snails modeling.

Luo Yongqiang joked that he had suffered from shoelace obsessive-compulsive disorder since then. "Every time I went out, everyone looked forward. Only I was walking down my head and watching the shoelaces on other people's feet."

Occasionally seeing an interesting shape, Luo Yongqiang would keep staring at other people's shoes for a long time. "You can see that people almost reported the alarm and thought they were being followed by bad guys."

Luo Yongqiang's obsession was not initially understood by his family.

Parents do not understand, a good boy, learn something bad, why bother so many days and nights to play with a few shoelaces?

Luo Yongqiang did not refute that he only paid his wages every month and went to the wholesale market in Chaotianmen. Several shop owners selling shoes had remembered this tall, thin and silent boy.

Soft, hard, wide, narrow, black and white, color...

At most, Luo Yongqiang's home collected more than 1000 pairs of shoelaces.

"The shape of the shoes is fixed and boring. The nice shoelace can make every pair of shoes different."

Luo Yongqiang said.

As the shoelaces grew better, Luo Yongqiang began to have his fans.

A Guangdong boy saw Luo Yongqiang's Shoelace sculpt on the Internet and used the opportunity to travel to Chongqing to find Luo Yongqiang's apprenticeship.

Over the past few years, Luo Yongqiang has taught hundreds of students.

More and more customers, Luo Yongqiang's counter business is getting better and better, less than half a year, counter sales rose from the initial more than 30 thousand to 120 thousand.

Six months later, Luo Yongqiang was pferred to the CONVERSE counter as a business backbone. It was also half a year's time, and monthly sales increased from 50 thousand yuan to 200 thousand yuan.

　　躍升·浪漫圣誕屋

At the beginning of this year, Luo Yongqiang, 24, was promoted to the head of a gentleman's group in the menswear division. He was the youngest among the 18 cabinet leaders in the men's clothing division.

Luo Yongqiang's life is more busier than ever.

Leaving the familiar shoelace world and facing the management of the brand new 26 men's wear brands, Luo Yongqiang spent two months adjusting to it.

"I still like shoelaces, but the new position gives me more room to play."

Before Christmas last year, Luo Yongqiang was seconded to a shopping mall.

He spent three days drawing sketches, buying materials, cutting and coloring, and putting up a long, wide and 3 meter high Christmas Cottage. "On Christmas day, many people take pictures before I make them."

Luo Yongqiang is very proud.

Christmas modelling is red hot, which has attracted the attention of many design companies in Chongqing.

For more and more attention, Luo Yongqiang said, "I still want to continue to work in the mall, this is my first job, I hope it can be done well."

This year, he hopes to build a blog about shoelaces and introduce his own shoelaces to more people.

He was advised to apply for a patent for shoelace, and he shook his head. "Why should we apply for a patent?"

I hope that more and more people will learn to play the beautiful shoelace style and watch them play the shape I invented. I feel very satisfied.