Paying Homage To Jean-michel Basquiat, The Ababa Basquiat Is Part Of Our Collaborative Multi-piece Capsule Showing Off Three Of The Late Artist’s Neo-expressionist Works. This Shoe Is Made From Wild Hide, The Naturally-scarred Leather Of Free-roaming, Cage-free Cattle, Sourced From Small Scale Farmers In Ethiopia. Handmade In Ethiopia, The Production Of The Ababa Empowers Makers And Supports Local Communities.
- Hand-stitched in Addis Ababa, and directly providing sustainable jobs to local communities, these shoes are made with Ethiopian-sourced Wild Hide leather.
- Naturally tanned by our partners, Pittards, our leather meets international environmental standards.
- This shoe is embroidered with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s eponymous ‘Pez Dispenser’ dinosaur, one of the late artist’s highly acclaimed Neo-Expressionist paintings.
- Ababa shoes carry the Proudly Made in Africa award, as they are independently verified for their quality, materials and ethical production
- Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
