Payless ShoeSource declared October 13 ideas to launch the first-ever moderate green shoes line due in stores early next year. It has signed an agreement with Summer Rayne Oakes company, Discovery Network’s Planet Green fashion and beauty expert and author of Style, Naturally: The Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion & Beauty (2009), to work as the green footwear brand’s Eco Consultant.
The appearance collection will include on-trend, stylish accessory products and footwear that are also green up to the use of ecologically sustainable and eco-friendly matters such as organic linen and cottons, natural hemp fibre and recycled outsoles, as well as the use of eco-smart packing.
Every season the collection will be refreshed offering the latest trends.
So fat the new brand will be released for women, and will include kids’ and men’s styles in the future.
The “green” shoes will be available at prices, on average, of under $30 a pair early next year in about 500 stores with select styles appearing in 1,000 stores, as well as generally available on Ryless.com(R).
The line is unequalled not only as the first-ever available green footwear, but also because it will stress fashion first, while being eco-smart.
The sustainability movement is pervasive today and is touching so many elements of consumers’ daily lives and they are interested in more and more green product options being available to them,” told Matt Rubel, CEO of Collective Brands, Inc., the parent company of Payless ShoeSource. “But green items are often expensive and inaccessible to so many. With our mission to democratize the latest ideas in footwear and accessories, we are in the best position and proud to bring forward a green footwear line that is affordable and accessible to all. Our alliance with Summer Rayne Oakes is important to this new brand initiative. Summer Rayne is a trend-setting expert in Eco Fashion, and she will help us launch our new green brand, as well as assist us in driving innovation with fresh, new eco-smart ideas for this brand going forward.”
The line is unequalled not only as the first-ever available green footwear, but also because it will stress fashion first, while being eco-smart.
When Payless approached me to partner with them on what would be their first-ever affordable green line of footwear, it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Oakes. “It’s high time a stylish line of shoes can be both environmentally friendly and reasonably priced. Payless is at the forefront of a significant movement bridging fashion, environmental awareness and accessibility — an undertaking I am proud to be a part of.”
Payless ShoeSource company said it expects to launch the new brand name closer to when the shoes are available in stores next year.
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I’m waiting this line!
I love greeeeeeeeeeen!
Mmm.. Green looks nice. I’ve gotta try something of that kind…
this year everyone were in yellow, purple and white. next year it’s gonna be green season hit.