Fashion: Vegan Shoes with a Heart

Choose a colour to choose a charity, or choose a charity to choose a colour. Whichever you choose, these towering high heels are giving back to the community. 

That's the philosophy behind The Glow Brand, who produce these brightly coloured heels in 10 different colours - with each colour representing a donation to a specific charity. 

We especially love the aqua blue versions, because the purchase price includes a donation to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (and because it's such a gorgeous summery tone of blue). 

Other colours are linked with charities which support children's foundations, conservation trusts and support homes for victims of domestic violence. 

Made in Italy from TPU*, with a rubber (non-slip) outer sole and a stainless steel heel support, the shoes are available online here or through various stores in Europe and the US. To find your closest stockists, check here.


Future Fabric note:

* TPU or Thermoplastic PolyUrethane is a class of polyurethane plastic with a high resistance to grease, oil and abrasion, which can be recycled over and over. The scraps can also be reprocessed into new extrusions, which makes it a popular choice for footwear, laptop cases, mobile phone covers and medical devices, etc. The material has elastic properties, which makes it a comfortable choice for footwear.  

By Virginia

As the "mother" half of the Future King & Queen mother-daughter duo, Virginia is a Melbourne based designer who firmly believes that living kindly is a series of daily choices that we can each make in order to touch the earth more lightly. At the age of 11, she wrote a passionate English essay about the practice of animal testing in the cosmetics industry, as part of a school assignment - and as an adult, has strived to encourage her 3 children to become compassionate, thinking young adults who care for both others around them and the world in which they live.

Virginia has been vegan for more than 2 years, after attending a talk by Phillip Wollen (OAM) when all the lightbulbs suddenly went on! Here was a way to live that touched the earth more lightly, didn't involve harm to animals, and opened the door to a much more healthy lifestyle. 

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