Veerah's Multifunctional Vegan Shoes Are "Inspired by Women, Made for Warriors"
COMFY LUXE With a name that means "warrior" in Sanskrit, Veerah's mission is to offer luxury shoes that women...
Adidas Makes Biodegradable Sneaker From Artificial Spider Silk
Adidas has just unveiled the first performance shoe made from artificial spider silk. The Futurecraft Biofabric,...
FIRST LOOK: Timberland's New Shoes, Bags Made With Recycled Plastic Bottles
PLASTIC FANTASTIC This "unprecedented transparency," Rosenberger said, will allow Timberland customers to learn...
Adidas Debuts First Shoe Made Almost Completely by Robots
FUTURE SHOE Adidas also harnessed a motion-capture technology called "Aramis" to map the natural movement of the...
Sneaker Made With Carbon Emissions is a "Shoe Without a Footprint"
We recycle metal, plastic, paper, so why not carbon dioxide? That's the question that NRG Energy posed to the audience...
Philippe Starck Designs Recycled—And Recyclable—Flip-Flops for Ipanema
Philippe Starck's line of flip-flops for Ipanema may not make you taller, tanner, younger, or lovelier, but they're...
Rothy's Makes 3D-Knitted Ballet Flats From Recycled Plastic Bottles
Rothy's just might be the shoe of the summer. Produced using a three-dimensional knitting technique that generates...
Mods: Modular, Sustainable Footwear That Reduces Landfill Waste
DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY "Mods," his submission, comprises better-for-the-planet fibers such as bamboo, for the...
Adidas, Parley Giving Away 50 Pairs of Shoes Made From Ocean Plastic
TAKE BACK THE OCEAN “This Adidas x Parley running shoe is already iconic,” Eric Liedtke, Adidas Group executive...
Rombaut Uses Pineapple "Leather" to Make Vegan-Friendly Sneakers
We've seen the future of leather and it doesn't involve cows. Take Rombaut, for instance. Eschewing animal hide,...
Nike Now Makes Most of Its Products From Recycled Waste
Nike is doubling down on waste. In its annual sustainability report, issued on Wednesday, the sportswear giant...
Alice: A Modular, Zero-Waste Shoe Grown From Fungus
JE SUIS ALICE “As trendsetters, the high-fashion industry should be searching for solutions," Peters, a 15-year...
Camper, Ethical Fashion Initiative Collaborate on Ethiopian-Made Shoes
SHOES WITH SOUL “We are extremely pleased to work with Camper, a family-owned company with strong values and a...
Brave GentleMan's Unisex Fashion Features Vegan Wool, Faux Leather
HE FOR SHE Like it's done in the past, Brave GentleMan partnered with Novacas, a cruelty-free label based in New...
Hold the Phone, Matt & Nat Just Launched Vegan Shoes
Hold the phone and shut the door: Matt & Nat now sells shoes. (That squee of delight you heard was us, #sorrynotsorry)...
Alice + Whittles Debut Fair-Trade Rain Boots in Time for April Showers
PUDDLE JUMPERS The solution quickly presented itself: "We wanted to create rain boots that were well-made and...
Nike Celebrates Four Years of Flyknit, Now Uses Recycled Polyester
Nike toasted the fourth anniversary of "Flyknit" with an infographic about its mold-breaking technology. What's...
Meet the World's First 3D-Knitted Casual Shoe
A Los Angeles-based footwear company has created what it dubs the world's first three-dimensionally knitted casual...
Under Armour Unveils "Smart" Sneaker That Tracks Your Workouts
Forget dongles, wristbands, and biosensor pads—the next wave of activity trackers will be built into our clothing....
Watch Veja Recycle Plastic Bottles Into Eco-Hip Sneakers
Veja doesn't just make shoes; it makes statements. The French company employs some of the greenest footwear materials...
Lemlem, Soludos's Ethical Espadrilles Are Bohemian-Chic
While folks in the Northern Hemisphere are dusting off their snow boots, for the rest of us, there's Soludos, a...
Adidas Introduces Running Shoe With 3D-Printed Materials
Unlike collaborator Kanye West, who voiced his concern in September about three-dimensional printing "destroying"...
Bhava's Vegan Convertible Boot is Three Shoes in One
TRANSFORMER BOOTS "The two-piece boot concept has been around for a while, but I hadn't seen it executed in a...
Adidas Working on "Endlessly Recyclable" Zero-Waste Soccer Cleat
Adidas envisions a future where worn-out sportswear isn't thrown away, but rather broken down and remolded with...
Pamela Anderson Launches Two Vegan Shoe Collections
Pamela Anderson is not launching one but two lines of vegan footwear. After a near decade away from the spotlight,...
Vibram's Furoshiki-Inspired Shoe Wraps Around Your Foot Like Fabric
Vibram—it of "FiveFinger" shoe infamy—is hawking a new offbeat concept in footwear: the “Furoshiki” sneaker. Inspired...
Vans, Charlotte Stone Create Eco-Friendly Recycled Sneakers
ECO KICKS Although Stone usually works with leather, she decided on a different tack. "With the Vans project,...
Made of Regenerated Leather, Dooq Sandals Are Endlessly Customizable
For the lady who changes her mind on a dime, there's Dooq, a line of "fully transformable" sandals you can customize...
"Undo" Laces Offset the Carbon Footprint of Your Shoe
A physical footprint isn't the only thing your running shoes might be leaving behind. According to a 2013 study...
Pleats Please Issey Miyake, Native Shoes Debut Cruelty-Free Sneakers
SUMMER KICKS Pleats Please, Miyake's paean to the grace and simplicity of the pleat, feature permanently pressed...