VANASSIBARA LIMITED

We design footwear to make our clients feel genuinely better. Whether you wear one of our lace-ups, a sneaker or a chinelo, when you are in Vanassibaras you are safe! We are a high end designer brand and our products are immaculately made following the best artisanal techniques. Vanassibara is run from London by Diego and Gotzon. Diego is from south Brazil and he looks after the creative areas whilst Gotzon, who’s from Finland, is the man that makes sure that the business runs smoothly. This hot and cold synergy allows us to build a high energy label that thinks differently. Vanassibara was six times a recipient of the coveted NEWGEN prize, an initiative from the British Fashion Council to support emerging talent. The brand was also the winner of Footwear Friends Award, a prize from British Footwear Association and Footwear Friends. We have done several custom-made installation displays for Isetan Shinjuku, the supreme Department Store in Japan, like the one in the picture above called The Prism The Tornado, one of our daring installations, traveled to Tokyo to be exhibited alongside our shoes at the prestigious Dover Street Market Ginza concept store Another of our Fashion Week installations, The Crying Forest, was on display in Hong Kong at On Pedder, a footwear reference in the region The brand collaborated with celebrated Japanese designer Mihara Yasuhiro on two separate occasions to create two capsule shoe collections Both collections were launched during Paris Fashion Week Men’s Vanassibara was invited by L’Uomo Vogue to create a shoe in collaboration with MINI Automobile for their fashion arm of the business. The shoe was launched during Pitti Uomo in Florence as part of “Beyond Native”, a project between L’Uomo Vogue, GQ Italy and MINI. Adelaide, a sea shell inspired sculpture, was created in collaboration between Vanassibara and the artist Victoria Adam and auctioned for charity at Christies London, as part of a fashion and art project between The Royal Academy of Art and the British Fashion Council.