Vegan Shoes, Vegetarian Shoes, Ethical and Stylish Footwear

Our Story

Beyond Skin was born in 2001 because it seemed impossible to be both stylish and cruelty free. There were simply no gorgeous, vegan shoes to be found anywhere!

We set out on a mission to bring about style and quality to those that cared. We were keen to make our shoes as close to home as possible so set about our quest to find some of the last footwear factories in existence in the UK. It was not an easy road and it took us almost 2 years to find an English factory that could make beautiful, non leather footwear.

The Old Days
We started out sampling in a small factory in E17 and just as we were about to start production it closed down. Slightly demoralised but eager to crack on to see our vision become a reality we eventually found another small factory in London's, Camden and in 2003 began to trade from our home on Agar Grove NW1.

We launched a tiny collection of made to order shoes and boots in two simple colourways over six styles. From here the collections grew and grew but sadly our little factory in Camden also met its' demise.

Totally disheartened but not ready to surrender, we struggled on to find one of the last remaining factories in East London to take over our production. This little family run factory handmade all of our lovely shoes.

As awareness of our brand increased more and more boutiques began to ask us if they could carry our Beyond Skin collection. Unfortunately, because they were all handmade in England they were too expensive for us to wholesale. This meant, in order to get our Beyond Skin line out to the world we had to spread our wings and take some of our manufacturing elsewhere.

We were very lucky to get introduced to an amazing woman who worked with lots of factories in Alicante, Spain. She helped us to find two lovely Spanish factories to work with to help build our growing brand.

Our adventures still continue, look out next season for our new more affordable line of ‘Essentials’ and our ‘Boutique’ line of shoes!