Finding a beautifully made pair of vegan shoes is literally like finding a needle in a haystack. More often that not vegan shoes are badly designed and made with cheap, tacky materials. Thus, when choosing footwear, animal lovers and eco enthusiasts are often forced to either sacrifice their sense of style and creativity or feel terribly guilty about purchasing non vegan footwear.

Rebecca Mink, a native of southern California, founded Mink shoes in 2004 as she was constantly torn between the high end fashion she loved, and the animals and planet she adored. Rebecca saw the gap in the marketplace for luxurious vegan shoes and conceived the ultimate alternative.

Mink uses eco friendly, animal free materials from sustainable resources such as organic fabrics, wood, rubber and cork and are made in Italy. Even the shoebox/reusable bag is made from recycled paper. Rebecca Mink has been very successful in showing that one does not have to harm the earth or animals to wear gorgeous, sexy shoes.

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