What inspires you most, here?
"I think the question is, 'what doesn't inspire us?' I mean we're looking at blogs and we're traveling...and I'd say that a lot of the inspiration actually comes from the people who work here. There will be some girls that will come in here wearing some great vintage shoes, or this one girl actually had this vest that she picked up in Peru that had all this really great tapestry on it and I had to beg her: I was like, 'Okay, let me know any shoe that you want and I will get it for you completely for free if you just give me this vest,' because we wanted to be able to put that type of treatment onto the footwear. We like those unexpected places to find ideas."

How do you think Aldo transcends time and speaks to women of different ages?
"Our goal is to speak to a lot of different people, and we like making fashion accessible. I think it comes from just the culture. Mr. B, himself, even to this day, is really involved with the product and he's constantly questioning the collection from different angles and he'll actually ask me questions sometimes— 'Think about the way you would've looked when you were 22 years old and you first started, and now that you're a professional 30-something woman, how do you look at it?' So, I think it's just something that's just engrained in us. We try to cater to a lot of different people.

"I think another thing that actually helps us is that we're based out of Montreal. I think that when you're in one of the top fashion cities, like New York or London, it's great because you're always around the newest and the greatest. But because we're based here, we get a realistic sense of 'will people actually wear this?' or 'will this appeal to the masses?' We tend to look at a trend or an idea and say 'Is this something that you can picture a girl actually walking around the streets of Montreal wearing?'"

What is currently your favorite Aldo product?
"At the moment, it's really easy. Probably the sneaker wedges. They're all so comfortable, and it's nice when there's a comfortable trend that's in fashion."