I first discovered Terra Plana a few years ago while filming my show in NYC. Someone ran by their showroom to pick up some shoes for me to wear and I ended up purchasing two of the pairs they brought back because I couldn’t live without them. About a month prior I had happened upon their SoHo shop and fell in love with the brand (and a handbag that, to this day, I get multiple compliments on every time I carry it).
What’s to love? Everything.
The company offers fashionable shoes with an ethical twist.
The Terra Plana products themselves support theories and actions of sustainability: lightness, anatomic design, disassembly and durability. They constantly strive to minimize waste, toxins (vegetable tanning their leather instead of using chemicals), and glues (using stitched construction instead), while using eco-friendly and innovative materials to create light, flexible, durable, and earth friendly shoes. They say that “the totally sustainable shoe is still a long way off but with each collection we get that little bit closer.”
There are recycled elements in every Terra Plana shoe: recycled PET bottles for mesh, recycled rice husks for soling materials, recycled leather and recycled foam for footbeds, etc..
Their VivoBarefoot line goes one step further. The construction of the show actually works to strengthen the muscles in your feet, realigning your posture, and stimulating sensory perception. They give you the protection of a shoe with the health benefits of going barefoot.
But here’s what I really love about Terra Plana. Their shoes and boots are not only ethical, they’re BEAUTIFUL!
Just the other day I slipped my foot into my newest pair of Terra Planas; a Grey (the hot color of the season) Juniper pump. They hugged my feet in all the right places, felt so soft on the sole of my foot, and carried me on a bed of feel-good all day long.
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Beautiful or not, these shoes are much too expensive. I realize that eco-friendly means better standards of living for the workers and better materials however, the prices for these are out of this world.