Eleanor Anukam offers a line of luxury shoes ranging from sizes 9-13. After spending years searching for quality shoes in her size, she never quite found what she was looking for. Realizing that there weren’t many selections for women who wear sizes larger than a 10, she decided to create a luxury line of women’s footwear catering to those women. “I’m designing for a fashion forward lady with broadened global influences with a thirst to disrupt fashion.” Eleanor describes[...]
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was an African-American inventor in the shoe industry. Matzeliger was born September 15, 1852, in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a father who was a Dutch engineer and a mother who was a black Surinamese slave. At the age of 10, Matzeliger began working in machine shops under his father's guidance, until leaving his hometown of Suriname to be a sailor on an East Indian merchant ship, where he later settled in Philadelphia. As a dark-skinned man, his options were limited, and[...]
Meet Designer Marc Hare Marc Hare was born in July 1970 in Croydon, South London. He attended London’s College of Fashion where he majored in Business studies and after graduating he worked in Public Relations. Over the next twenty years, he worked as a design and marketing consultant for some of the world’s top leading fashion labels before starting up his own brand in 2009. He decided to launch his own brand after the realization that there were not enough shoes that he liked. In 200[...]
Meet Designer Armando Cabral Armando Cabra was born in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau in 1982 but raised in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2006 Armando moved to New York to pursue a career in modeling. He landed his first modeling gig with Meltin'Pot and Ozwald Boateng ad campaigns. He has walked the runway for many designers such as Michael Kors, Lacoste, Emanuel Ungaro among others. He also signed an exclusive contract to do Calvin Klein’s show at the Milan fashion week. Armando ha[...]