Time has flown by this month and we have been very busy! There’s been a buzz of excitement around the workshop getting the new Eco-Tan Accessories range together, and we did a really fun photoshoot this week (once the black clouds and torrential rain finally lifted!) so are looking forwards to putting the new pictures on the site.
We were delighted to see a picture of Dr Alice Roberts, an inspiring scientist and presenter of ‘Don’t Die Young’ on BBC2, looking fantastic in a pair of Iris Knee-high boots in the Independent. We all read the article at coffee time, and we were struck by her passion for re-energising a traditional way of explaining and exploring science in a way that people can relate to.
We feel similarly about making things - shoes or anything else - in that it shouldn’t be a distant and separate component of peoples lives, but relevant, integrated, and lively. Where something comes from and how it is made is important to us, and hope that we can show this through what we do!
Green Shoes founder Alison Hastie has recently been elected a fellow of the RSA(Royal Society for the enouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce), and we feel it is wonderful that her incredible commitment to working in a creative and visionary way over the last 25 years has been recognised.
When Alison started Green Shoes, the importance of carrying traditional skill forwards in a way that values the individual maker within design and manufacturing was against the tide of mass production and factory dominance.Our current awareness of the social and environmental impact of this comes out of the continued commitment of people who have placed these ideals at the centre of their lives and communicated it to others.

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