Stylish Luxury That Does Good.
Best foot forward: Ross Oliver Footwear
Sometimes it pays to focus on one thing, and doing that one thing very, very well to ensure your brand's sustainable luxury offering is exactly that. Ross Oliver's area of expertise is boots: smart, hard-wearing boots, made with Italian caviar grain leather, Blake-stitched commando soles and real purpose. The AW20 collection, in partnership with the UK charity Big Cat Sanctuary – which receives 20 per cent of profits from the collection – features a starring line-up of five styles influenced and named after cats rescued by the sanctuary; Maya the black jaguar, Kafara the lion, Nias the tiger, Willow the cheetah and Laila the snow leopard.
Founder Ross Oliver Saunders is justly proud of his British-made brand: "My aim is to bestow a footwear brand with designs associated with a form of global significance or social importance. Our mission is simple: impact change through fashion, and close the gap between luxury fashion and conscious consumerism. It’s that design ethos that makes Ross Oliver different from any other brand." Suppliers for materials are meticulously chosen based on their ethical practices; how are the animals treated during their lives? What processes are used to obtain the material? How are materials cured and then treated? If you treat the man in your life to these boots, he'll still be wearing, and loving, them in 20 years' time.
