Collina Strada is expanding its sustainable styles from head to toe. The brand unveiled an array of green footwear styles during its Spring/Summer 2023 New York Fashion Week show, adding hiking sandals and low-cut loafers to its offerings. Made in partnership with eco-friendly brands Virón and Melissa, the shoes are made of 100 percent recyclable PVC and bio-based EVA.
Held at the Naval Cemetery Landscape, which houses a monarch butterfly preserve, the NYFW showcase took its name and theme from milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. Models fluttered their arms up and down as they walked to channel butterfly wings, while the show’s notes reveal Collina Strada’s new footwear was inspired by the insects themselves. The brand's founder Hillary Taymour, an outspoken advocate for conscious design, wrote that the designs are meant to pay tribute to “the butterfly’s symbolic cycle of life, death, and rebirth.”
