soleRebels

May 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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soleRebels was founded by Ethiopian entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu to bring jobs to her community in Zenabwork, Ethiopia. The company’s moto is: “making the world a better place. One step at a time.” This is done by re-imagining the traditional Selate and Barabasso shoe, a recycled tire sole shoe found in Ethiopia for generations. They’ve taken this age-old recycling tradition and elevated it to dynamic new heights, marrying it with fantastic Ethiopian artisan crafts and modern design sensibilities, turning the soleRebels brand into an eco-ethical brand that is retailed globally!

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soleRebels is the first Ethiopian IFAT Fair Trade footwear firm. The company has created over 40 full-time dignified well paying job sand a further 100 part-time jobs. soleRebel uses recycled and locally produced artisanal materials.

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Osklen

May 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Mountain climber, Zen practitioner, father, medical doctor, surfer, talented video maker, snow boarder and Brazil’s top fashion designer. Meet Oskar Metsavaht. His star label Osklen offers everything for design minded garotas and their boyfriends. Conceptual coats and pants or flirty dresses and tops come in a wide range of fabrics, from high-tech fibers to the finest silk. Oskar’s distinctive designs and aesthetics make him one of the most influential brands according to WGSN, the virtual bible of the fashion world.

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Oskar is Brazil’s pioneer in the new luxury movement, using the most innovative eco-fabrics in his collections, such as pupunha wood for belts, fish skin for shoes and PET from recycled plastic bottles. As a long-term environmental thinker, Oskar is the founder of e-Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness for sustainable human development.

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Nina Dolcetti

May 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Elisalex Grunfeld de Castro graduated from Cordwainers in 2005 and launched her high-end upcycled, luxury shoe label Nina Dolcetti at Estethica at London Fashion Week in September 2008. Nina Dolcetti shoes are designed with line and form in mind to create daring and architectural pieces that are as avant-garde as they are elegant.

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Aware of waste within the fashion industry, Nina Dolcetti shoes are designed and constructed to reuse off-cuts and unwanted pre-consumer waste. Handmade in a small family run factory in East London, Nina Dolcetti shoes represent a new breed of conscious design that confidently walks the line between decadent pleasures and environmental awareness.

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Manimal

May 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Buttery soft, adorably earthy and colorfully funky, Kristen Lombardi hand-makes her Manimal moccasins in Massachusetts. Hues range from neutral stone and tan to vivid fuschia and dark aqua, and styles include classic slip-ons, double-fringed and two-toned booties, all with decorative embroidery and thoughtful, comfy details. Her signature rib cage motif adorns shoe shafts and earrings. Look for the gorgeous stitching on her jeans and denim shorts.

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Manimal is sweatshop-free. Moccasins are crafted from organic suede and nylon-based suede alternatives, with scraps being put to creative use in her colorful ribcage earrings. All jeans are made from organic denim.

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Kitty Cooper

April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Watch out shoe addicts: Kitty Cooper’s amazing nouvelle vague collection is coming your way! Using vintage fabrics like rich brocade curtains, she creates quirky yet glamorous shoes such as Dina, a soft grey Tuscan nubuck shoe with a 1920s fuchsia grosgrain silk heel, or Tamara, a high-sheen Italian leather shoe with 1950s pin-prick polkadot fabric toe and heel.

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Kitty Cooper produces small runs of each style, allowing clients to choose their own vintage fabric from the collection. She believes that using leather, a by-product of the food industry, is more ethical than using leather alternatives that harm the environment. Her vegetable tanned leathers are free from man-made chemicals. All components are sourced and manufactured in the UK.

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Keds Green Label

April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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The iconic blue and white label goes green. Classic casual shoe brand, Keds, jumped into the mix in 2009 with the new Green Label. The sneaks look an awful lot like what you wore in school, but why ruin a good thing? From basic low-top lace-ups to velvet slip-ons, the styles are timeless.

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Watching a triple bottom line, the shoes feature authentic eco credentials like organic cotton, recycled cushioning, laces, and soles, non-toxic inks and dyes, as well as partnerships with organizations like Arbor Day to give back portions of proceeds to environmental causes.

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Hetty Rose

April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Vibrant colors, one-of-a-kind patterns. Every Hetty Rose shoe is hand-crafted from exquisite vintage Japanese kimono fabrics. UK-based designer Henrietta Rose Samuels offers classic bespoke services, allowing you to choose from her incredible fabric finds and feminine styles, like sexy slingbacks and glamorous mules, to give you a truly unique work of art.

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Hetty Rose creatively reuses and reworks vintage materials. Every shoe upper is constructed from these lush antique fabrics and eco-sensitive vegetable tanned leather.

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Hemp Hoodlamb

April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Sustainability meets urban fashion. A stylistic marriage made in comfort, producing cashmere-soft and naturally strong clothing from Hemp Hoodlamb’s own unique blends of hemp and other eco-friendly fabrics.

Traces of surfer life and an independent creative mindset reveal the labels’ origins (HoodLamb founders Douglas Mignola and Adam Dunn are originally from California and New York), but HoodLambs’ head quarters and design studio are located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Quality, comfort and innovative design are trademarks of the HoodLamb Collection. Whether you are plowing through a meter of snow in your drive-way or need to warm up quickly after a chilly session in the surf, you can rely on HoodLamb to keep you warm and comfortable in style. HoodLamb has a fresh, laid-back vibe with an eye toward practical features like water-proofing and functional pockets.

When it comes to design, HoodLamb doesn’t follow the hypes of the fashion world, but creates apparel that never goes out of style and remains a wardrobe favorite year after year. Their range of Winter Jackets has gained a large following with even celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Woody Harrelson and Michael Franti amongst their fans.

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Riding the first wave of sustainable technology, Hemp Hoodlamb pioneered through creating its own blends of eco-fabrics to create high-performance clothing. Their Cruelty Free Fur has been named as one of the softest and most comfortable fur alternatives available in various design reviews. Through the use of eco-friendly materials, they hope to create awareness about sustainable production and consumption and demonstrate that fashion and sustainability can be combined into one entity.

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For Your Earth

April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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FYE (For Your Earth) is an eco-friendly sneaker brand with products made from recycled materials and organic cotton. Emmanuel Cortez, the founder of the France-based brand, has 10 years experience in the shoe industry, so has known what elements of shoe manufacturing have needed improvement to better respect the environment. FYE has also used a new generation of vegetarian and animal free materials, ULTRA-SUEDE, for its winter collection, which is made from 100% recycled materials but as tough as leather.

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FYE is not only the new, trendy brand, but it fully respects the environment and mankind. The shoe soles are made with 50% of recycled shoes, and the upper portion is made either from recycled polyester (plastic bottles) or organic cotton (GOTS certified). Also, FYE offsets its CO2 emissions through a partnership with Planète Urgence; for every one FYE shoe, one tree is planted. FYE invest 5% of the shoe price to improve the work conditions.

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Jordan Shoes better future  

August 21, 2010 by 2 Comments

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