I’ve heard that Valentine’s Day is for romance and celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. How fitting for me to share my insatiable love for Eco Friendly Shoes–my most faithful escorts!
Melissa Shoes Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon
Melissa Shoes collaborates with some of the most inventive minds in the arts, design and fashion. Melissa Shoes partnership with Vivienne Westwood resulted in several alluring designs like these slingbacks. You can do more than ignite a flame with the fashionable Lady Dragon shoes. Let your fiery pedi peep out through the toes of these shoes in mystical fashion. Lady Dragon sets the tone perfectly for romance.
I love that Melissa Plastic Dreams utilizes sustainable practices as its core existence. Melissa developed Melflex and this material has proven to be a phenomenally flexible medium used to produce beautiful shoes. Not only does Melissa Shoes use recycled materials, they recycle, recycled materials, thus further reducing waste. The end results of all this technology, creativity and partnerships are durable, comfortable and enviable shoes that last without harming the environment.
Watch as Corrine Bailey Rae flashes a lovely pair of Melissa Shoes Vivienne Westwood shoes prior to her live performance recently on the NBC Today show. 
More Eco Shoe Love,
~Ar
This post may be a little late, but some of us busy-nistas are still adjusting to “2010″, besides, it’s never too late for shoes! After wearing my precious toes out from attending holiday parties, two of my annual New Year rituals are my first pedicure and flipping through my new 365 Days of Shoes Calendar. I have been a fan of these Workman Press calendars for years and have them prominently featured in my office. Adapted from the bestselling book, Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More by Linda O’Keeffe, I love that 365 Days of Shoes is packed full of avant-garde, deliciously chic shoes. 365 Days of Shoes brilliantly exhibits an eclectic mix of glamor, deco, classics, and futuristic shoes from the industry’s premier shoe design houses. This year I was so pleased that among the glossy pages of luxury shoe designers as Jimmy Choo, Casadei, Manolo Blahnik, and Stewart Weitzman were some of Eco Shoe Source’s favorite eco friendly designers. Sprinkled throughout the 2010 Calendar was Charmone and Natalie Portman for Te Casan. Charmome’s popular Cinnamon Bordeaux (shown below) makes an impressive debut as the featured shoe in the wall calendar for the month of December.
The 365 Days of Shoes Calendars are available in wall, desk and refrigerator magnets. If you haven’t picked up your calendar for 2010, please visit Workman Press site, Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Also, in the spirit of being eco friendly, each year the 365 Days of Shoes Calendar can be saved and recycled as great wall art, used for decoupage projects or decorating your shoe boxes. 
What a wonderful Green option in these challenging economic times to start each day with a new pair of shoes by only making one purchase! Happy New Year and More Shoes!
~Ar
Actress Nia Long has joined the esteem ranks of celebrity PETA spokes models. The successful “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign has featured such celebrities as Eva Mendes, Khloe Kardashian, Naomi Campbell and Roselyn Sanchez. Ralph Lauren made a committed in 2006 to not use fur in any of its collections after talks with PETA. One of our favorite eco designers, Stella McCartney, recently participated in a PETA’s anti-fur commercial for television during Fashion Week in Paris. Individuals can personally pledge not to wear fur by visiting PETA.org.
Nial Long I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur PETA Campaign
On a side note, personally I’m a fan of the campaign and PETA’s quest to bring awareness of animal cruelty. I am not a fan of the photograph, which appears to my untrained eye to be Photoshopped and overly edited. I am left wondering, as beautiful as Nia Long is, if she really is comfortable in her own skin?
PETA, synonymous with animal rights, has an ongoing celebrity anti-fur awareness campaign makes reality TV. An episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians features the transformation of one of their newest spokesmodels, Khloe Kardashian.
Khloe Kardashian PETA
Find out more by visiting Khloe’s site.
http://khloekardashian.celebuzz.com/
~Ar
