vegan shoes

The First Vegan Shoe Company

October 14th, 2010

 

an ad from Zero Two

 

I just read a very interesting article about the first company–now long gone–to make vegan shoes in the 90s. They were called Zero Two’s , were marketed as a skate shoe, and had a very controversial advertising campaign–the first one said “thanks for not killing me” with a picture of a cow, and others were more graphic. They really seemed to be the first people to raise awareness that shoes come from cows (mostly). Read the rest of the very interesting article here on the blog of a line of shoes called The Vegan Collection.

 
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Two Awesome Vegan Shoes from Marais USA

October 13th, 2010

Marais USA Lace Up Heel

Maraisusa.com

Lace-up Heel Black

Smooth faux Napa upper and a chunky wooden heel (it’s on mooshoes.com and they always check to make sure things are totally non leather so we can safely assume the sole is non leather too_

$110.00

Marais USA is a pretty awesome company that sells shoes online. The only boots I wore last winter were their brown Chelsea boot, which also happens to be vegan.

Chelsea boot in sienna

Maraisusa.com

Chelsea Boot Sienna (also comes in black)

$120.00

Faux Nappa leather with elastic siding (also on mooshoes.com so assume non leather for reasons stated above)

Well, Marais USA has great taste and a lot of their shoes just so happen to be made without leather. They recently released the lace up heel pictured above, and I really took a liking to it.

The lace up heel reminds me of one of my other favorite fashion bloggers: Rhiannon of Liebemarlene vintage. She blogs full time and made a living of selling her vintage finds in an etsy store.  She is very intellectual and loves the history of silent film and classic literature. She lives in Atlanta and a lot of her pictures are taken in spooky run down plantation houses or graveyards. She is gorgeous and looks like Zooey Deschanel but even better. She always seems to wear shoes like this, and now I want to wear them too. lol.

Rhiannon of Liebemarlene Vintage

Every pic is too good.

 
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