I just learned of The Maasai Project; a joint marketing effort with Pikolinos footwear and 1,600 women from The Maasai Tribe in Kenya and Northern Tanzania. The project aims to improve the quality of living for the Maasai communities and the profits from this collection go to the Maasai women, who receive a fair wage allowing them to support their families, their culture, and lifestyle, and to have access to basic needs such as food and medicine (Pikolinos). Pikolinos distributes their leathers among the villages and the women embroider them and their beautiful designs are sent back to Pikolinos' production facility in Elche, Spain where they're made into footwear and accessories.
The lovely Olivia Palermo is this year's ambassador of the project and who better to spread the word to the fashion and blogging communities! Click here to shop the Maasai-Pikolinos Collection for gorgeous sandals and bags. And check out this video and amazing photos from Olivia's recent visit to Kenya. I just hope they soon introduce jewelry into the mix, handcrafted by the talented Maasai women - so stunning!
J xx
2 comments:
Leave our Nations alone. Your species already labeled The Maasai Nation white. Like if our Aboriginal faces look white. Next your women will come to breed us out. Erasing Our greatness and faces from our story. You always come to make money and use us to seem like good people. How is you theft of our culture and degusting manipulation and advantageous ways humane. Leaving always destruction and theft in your path. Go to your poor countries, nations, states, cities, towns, boroughs, communities, and kind and appropriate your own kind. ENOUGH !
Leave our Nations alone. Your species already labeled The Maasai Nation white. Like if our Aboriginal faces look white. Next woman and mankind will come to breed us out. Erasing Our greatness and faces from our story and replacing it with your red ones. Like you've done all over the world. You kind always come to make money and use us pretending to be good people. You wear us like your clothes, props, pets and zoo animals. How is your theft of our culture, disgusting manipulation and advantageous ways humane? Look at what your wearing so proudly. You take advantage of those who don't know your deception. Leaving always destruction, mental abuse and theft of everything in your path. Go to your poor countries, states, towns, cities, nations, and appropriate, exploit and sabotage your own people.
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