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Steve Pateman
Steve Pateman is an accomplished after dinner speaker and business lecturer. Whether talking to small groups or conferences; he talks about his life as a shoe factory managing director leading his company from every day footwear and fashion into the kinky boot market.
About Steve Pateman
Steve Pateman is renowned for telling stories and anecdotes from how he went from the back streets of Earls Barton to a BBC2 programme “ The Kinky Boot Factory” which millions of people have watched worldwide. Subsequently, the story was adapted into the film “ Kinky Boots” and then into a Broadway musical of the same name.
Steve started in the family shoe business W J Brookes straight from school at the age of 17 where he learnt the trade from his farther, eventually taking over the running of the factory when his farther retired. When a down turn in the shoe industry led Steve to look to new ideas he stumbled into the market of making kinky boots for the transvestites and transgender community.
A series of events then led him into a world of new experiences, people and celebrities as well as becoming a television star BBC2 programme, The Kinky Boot Factory.
The documentary where shaving his legs and learning to walk in six-inch stiletto heels are just two of the things he did to save his family business. The programme caught the attention of film-makers and in 2005 became the film Kinky Boots. Now the New York stage version has won the Tony award for Best Musical.
Watch “Trailer: Kinky Boots” on YouTube.
