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Komrads wins PETA's Vegan Fashion Award 2022

Vegan fashion is becoming a growing part of the fashion industry. Every year, PETA awards the Vegan Fashion Award to honour labels and products that produce fashionable, innovative, sustainable vegan clothing and accessories. We are one of the proud winners! The Komrads OCNS sneakers have been crowned as Best Vegan Sneakers, convinces with a...

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Everything you need to know about: Komrads

Komrads is a sustainable sneaker brand from Belgium that aims to create circular shoes with the lowest possible impact on our planet. With respect for people and nature and “radical transparency”, the label produces sneakers for men and women inspired by nostalgic design made entirely from reused and recycled materials. Origins The label...

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Komrads launches sneakers made of Ocean plastic

Komrads founders Mark & Greet are world lovers and sneaker addicts. But most of all, caring parents. That is why Komrads as a brand, is devoted to help our future generations to protect and grow a more liveable planet. With less waste and more fun. Picture: Komrads ad campaign, courtesy of the brand Did you know every year 12 million tons of...

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USSR cult sneakers Komrads celebrate vegan comeback

Once a symbol of anti-capitalism, Komrads sneakers were developed in Soviet times by the Czech Boot Company in the 1950s as a response to the shoe revolution in the West, more specifically as the East’s version of the Converse All Stars. Komrads soon achieved cult status, but would have been forgotten when production ceased in 2009 due to an...