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Miami: Miansai Factory

By Ashley Brozic
  • "When we first moved in, this neighborhood was nothing. Wynwood was nothing. When we were moving in there was a bum walking by, butt naked on crazy drugs. It wasn't the best of neighborhoods. When we first started Miansai, we were in a place in Downtown s
  • "It's like a one stop shop in here. If we need to prototype something, we have the capabilities to do it. I like having that control. There are some machineries that we don't have, but for the most part we have everything we need. And if we don't, then we
  • "It's always been the kind of place you want to go to work. It's laid back, but we take work very seriously because that's very important to me. It's my baby. Sometimes on weekends we'll do barbecues or after work we'll have some drinks."
  • "The brand's classics are our hook, our anchor, our screw cuff bracelet, and our other cuffs. Since the beginning, those are our core so those are always popular. Our new watches are popular now too. It depends on what kind of price point you want, really
  • "My whole thing was to make things for a guy who would wear a watch; something that's casual and just doesn't feel like jewelry. For the first couple of years I said this isn't jewelry. It's completely different from what others are doing. We were the fir
  • "We train all of our jewelers. Most of them didn't come in with [experience] but some of them did."
  • "We're going to go into different categories. We'll only stay in accessories, and we'll just grow organically like that."
  • "I think that I will open a store in Miami, but maybe not until 2016 or 2017 based on the location where I want to be. Right now Wynwood doesn't have the traffic that I want yet and I don't want to be on the beach. In Design District there's no traffic ye
  • "The women's line is very cool, but it's still very Miansai so it's just going to be a little softer. I want to be that brand that everyone and anyone can come to and you're going to get the most unique things out there and the most quality. That's my dre

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