Ethical shoes in better designs

Eco-fashion and ethical shoes in better designs. Eco-fashion has become a segment in its own right  within the fashion industry.

An increasing number of people have become more interested in the material of footwear and how shoes are produced. Footwear designers and manufacturers are now being required to build some form of sustainability or recycling into the material used.

For example, footwear that is made of upholstered leather from cars, trains or subways. Or, footwear that is made of natural products such as canvas, hemp or rope, using soles made of recycled tyres, cork or wood. Some examples are http://www.elnaturalista.com, http://www.terraplana.com, http://www.simpleshoes.com or http://www.melissaplasticdreams.com

An example of ethical footwear is TOMS shoes (http://www.tomsshoes.com). Their design is based on the traditional Gaucho shoes in Argentina, which are ultra light and are made of cotton. Their sales are geared to help disadvantaged children throughout the world, especially in Latin America and Africa. Ethical footwear is now also more elegantly designed with for example, heeled pumps with decorated flower models in trendy models. 

Published on 19 May 2010