No sneakers allowed.
I first learned about United Nude when I was on the first semester of Architecture – a good friend that I’ve met during those classes, an absolute fashionista that had a budget that was well over our typical broke-student-spare-money, introduced me to the brand as something that combined architecture with our mutual love of shoes.
And she was right, the ethos of the brand revolves around architectural shapes, structures and designs – all applied to shoe making.
Like I mentioned before, one of these days I was exercising my regular dose of procrastination and fell down the shoe rabbit hole into the vegan world.
A lot of brands that currently make shoes without leather, using cheaper plastic as a replacement, employ an obvious marketing maneuver to label the material as “vegan-leather” when veganism has nothing to do with it. What pisses me off is not so much that they are trying to re-brand a cost reducing strategy as an ethical intention, it’s mainly because those materials don’t respect the vegan principle of protecting the environment.
I do a lot of my procrastination browsing Farfetch. I justify it by telling myself that I’m looking for some things that are missing from my wardrobe: a wide brim black hat. Some knee-high socks. I desperately need a replacement for my worn-out black overcoat.
So after a lot of searching I got none of that and bought another pair of boots instead.