Long before it was a fad Natalie Portman started a line of vegan footwear.
Natalie Portman has taken up design… big deal! Another hot actress designing clothes… This actually is a big deal. Sizzling its way through all the hottest fashion blogs is the actress’s Vegan footwear!
In previous posts we talked about a skirt that can save your life (Yael Mer’s evacuation skirt), a patch that can save your clothes. Here’s another Israeli going green…
Along with Te Casan, Natalie has created a line of shoes, which is now selling at Te Casan’s store on West Broadway. Te Casan, “’A Woman’s Path’,” the site explains, “is Gaelic and originates from the inspiration of a global name that represents no specific nation or language and refers to all women.”
Natalie, a vegan since childhood and Israeli born, practices what she preaches. This new line of shoes contains no animal products. Their site explains that Natalie, “a Harvard graduate, noted for charitable pursuits, noticed the absence of fashionable animal-friendly footwear and collaborated with Té Casan for her debut collection.”
It continues: “Portman worked closely throughout to maintain quality standards and an exceptional design aesthetic. Dazzling, playful, elegant and free of animal products, each shoe exudes the starlet’s own personal style.”
We at Green Prophet pay tribute! It is too often that the cost of luxury, weighs more on the environment than in our pockets. That is not to say that luxury is always affordable but thinking back to mink, or even today’s sweatshops… It’s nice to see that the two can go hand in hand.
Author: Jack Reichert
As far back as he can remember Jack Reichert has been interested in the environment. In the second grade, he rallied all of his classmates to donate one recess a week to cleaning up litter from the schoolyard. That was the same year that a city councilman asked him to help with his campaign because of the letter Jack had written asking him to clean up Boston Harbor. Ever since Jack has followed the development of the international green conscience with anticipation and hope that one day we will treat Mother Earth with the respect she deserves and not turn her into another Giving Tree. For tips, feedback and prophet sightings, Jack can be reached at jack (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
Based on Google searches, it sounds like the store for Te Casan has closed, but the company is still running out of other outlets. Can anyone confirm?
~ Maya
I am also a vegetarian and my body has never been in a very good shape. Being a vegan can really make you much heathier.~*-
i became a Vegan three years ago and i can say that my health have been very very good. meat and dairy substitutes like soy also works well for the body.