Before you start-where your funky footwear is made..ADITI KALI FUSION COMES TO YOU FROM SHOE VALLEY ITALY..VIA SHOES ALIVE

A BIT OF HISTORY

There are three important footwear hubs in the world: Portland, Oregon (USA), Wenzhou, China, and Le Marche, Italy. Most of the big brands and a majority of independent designers and small brands create and produce their footwear products in these three places. AliveShoes is no different.

AliveShoes is located in Le Marche, which is commonly called “The Shoe Valley”. The nickname tells it all: More than 2,000 industries and 30,000 footwear professionals work in this big, green, beautiful valley. For more than 50 years, The Shoe Valley has been the design, marketing, invention and production core of the most important fashion brands like Gucci, Prada, Tod’s, Chanel, Fendi to name a few, as well as many new upcoming independent brands.

Sport to luxury brands, sneakers to elegant concepts, small independent projects to big brands have all contributed to the rich history and budding innovation of The Shoe Valley. Le Marche has seen it all, and it’s why AliveShoes headquarters is happy to call such an influential place home. This is our place.

THE SHOE VALLEY SECRET

Over the course of many years, people of The Shoe Valley have learned there is a secret in footwear. This secret evolved into a motto, one which everybody follows like a religion.

Our motto: Start small, aim big.

This motto is a simple concept similar to how you must learn to walk before you can run.
When applied to footwear, it means launching custom made shoes with a small group of people in order to grow it to a larger group of people later.
It applies to everything: big footwear brands, new brands, single products and small projects. Following this simple motto has allowed thousands of new products and brands to launch from The Shoe Valley each year.

YOUR CHANCE

AliveShoes was founded on this straightforward motto, with the goal of giving designers and shoe creators a real chance to make it big all by starting small. 

So, what are you waiting for? Start small, aim big.

AliveShoes gives talented and creative people all over the world the professional resources to design their own custom shoes and launch a shoe line from scratch. We take care of all production and logistics from Le Marche, Italy, the most exclusive and prestigious shoemaking district in the world.