A really extraordinary hand-painted shoe project, which is capable of uniting and telling nice stories. Artistic sneakers with attention paid also to technical details

Each time a consumer wears a pair of BucketFeet, those shoes are transformed into artist’s canvas, an instrument of self-expression which helps sharing and breaking down cultural barriers. Various artists draw each pair of single shoes so as to create products capable of telling a story.

And the story of BucketFett starts in Argentina, when two strangers exchange two pairs of hand-painted shoes and realize that this gesture arouses the curiosity of other people and becomes an opportunity to tell other stories and meet new people. So the two founders of Bucketfeet, Aaron and Raaja, decide that art applied to customization of a pair of shoes would become their powerful weapon to weave together people’s lives. In 2011 they founded the brand which now has become almost a cultural movement and thought, able to involve over 20,000 artists in more than 100 countries.

And the numbers are even more impressive if you consider that every BucketFeet receives about 500 artistic proposals for shoe decorations and 250 new artists become part of the network. The shoe models are not beautiful because of the works they support, but because care is also taken on technical details: printing is of high quality; leather, suede and canvas are first choice quality, as well as the vulcanized sole and the massaging and removable insole; the canvas lining is designed to allow a correct foot transpiration.