Laura Vita is a French footwear brand that does for shoes what the best wearable art labels do for clothing. Every pair is hand-painted in leather, individually coloured and entirely unlike anything else you will find on a shoe shelf. Combining genuine artistic craft with the comfort and construction you expect from quality French footwear, Laura Vita produces trainers and shoes for women who want their footwear to be as considered as the rest of what they wear.
At Experience Boutique we stock Laura Vita because our customers who love bold, artistic clothing were asking us for footwear with the same level of creative confidence, and nothing else we found delivered it as completely. The hand-painted leather construction means that no two pairs are exactly alike. The colour combinations are designed with an artist's eye for contrast and harmony. And the French footwear engineering underneath the paintwork means they are as comfortable to wear as they are striking to look at.
The collection centres on Laura Vita's signature hand-painted leather trainers, which have become the brand's most recognisable pieces in the UK. Each trainer features a distinctive painted design in colourful, expressive tones across quality leather uppers, producing footwear that works as a statement piece with the simplest outfit or as a considered complement to something more elaborately styled. The brand also produces sandals, heeled shoes and boots in the same hand-painted tradition.
Laura Vita designs are built on genuine French footwear craft. The construction is thoughtful, the leather quality is evident, and the comfortable last means that the shoes work for real days rather than being reserved for occasions. The hand-painting is not applied to inferior footwear as a way of making it interesting. It is applied to well-made shoes as a way of making them extraordinary.
Our Laura Vita edit is a small one, chosen to represent the pieces we think best illustrate what the brand does most distinctively. If you have not yet encountered Laura Vita, this is a collection worth taking time with.
