This morning, while getting dressed to go out, “The View” was on TV in the background. Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of the show, was telling the audience about this nifty pair of shoes that she was wearing, and the camera panned down to a close up of her shoes. Yup, nifty shoes!
So now it’s afternoon and I’m out and about, window shopping on Fillmore Street in San Francisco with a friend. We wandered into a shoe store that has the most amazing décor. I’m snapping pictures of the Sistine Chapel-esque ceiling of the store and the cork wallpaper behind that glass display shelves, and my eye traveled down the wall to a shelf filled with…. OMG, there are the same shoes that Whoopi was showing off this very morning!
Forget the ceiling, we’ve all seen the Sistine Chapel in one form or another. But these shoes!!!
They’re from United Nude, a shoe company started in 2003 by an architect and a fifth generation shoe manufacturer. The rational for their company's name is described on their web site: “United Nude is part of a creative collective, functioning as a hub of interaction between architects, fashion designers, magazine editors and photographers.”
See; there is a tie-in to architecture in this blog!
Today the brand is sold in stores all over the world and they have their own stores in 5 major cities.
Known to fashionistas everywhere, the highly engineered “Mobius” shoe was their first collaboration. My fave, and what Whoopi was wearing, is the “Fold” shoe. The colors flow and fold on each other in layers that create an aerodynamic pattern as though giving multi-hued wings to every step. For the more fashion-timid, they also come in solid colors. They're available in "hi, mid, and lo" heights, so there's something for everyone.
Here’s the link to The Fold’s page: https://www.unitednude.com/products/the-classics/fold
Clearly, United Nude has given us a way to put our best foot forward.
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