{"id":14181,"date":"2020-02-06T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/?p=14181"},"modified":"2020-02-06T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:35:42","slug":"pikolino-sandals-made-in-africa-by-maasai-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/pikolino-sandals-made-in-africa-by-maasai-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikolino Sandals Made In Africa by Maasai Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Thousands of miles away from New York,\u00a0 Swahili-speaking Massaii women were crafting\u00a0 our footsteps and creating a movement where shoppers could consume consciously” – Adiat Sade Disu, Founder of Adiree Company x Africa Fashion Week\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Pikolino sandals (shop here<\/a>) were cultivated under The Maasai Project<\/b> roughly eight years ago by Spain based company Pikolinos. And in their “Made In Africa” product debut, they enlisted my communications firm Adiree Company to create campaigns to engage (what I coined) “the cultural consumer.”<\/p>\n

Experiential Marketing by Adiat Disu of Adiree Company<\/h2>\n

Images of Maasai women from Kenya and Tanzania completing hand-stitch work for a selection of Pikolino’s sandals, under treas and enjoying the sunset would be portrayed during Adiree Company<\/a> events, throughout New York, along the side of designers from Africa showcasing during New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

Pikolinos values and development of the unique shoe line: colored beads hand-embroidered with pride in Kenya and Sandals cultivated with passion in Spain,\u00a0 fit\u00a0<\/em>snuggly with Adiree Company’s efforts to empower and provide Africa’s brands, products, and entrepreneurs access to cultural consumers around the globe (specifically in the US market). Thus the partnership and sponsorship relationship between Pikolinos and Adiree Company from 2012 – 2014.<\/p>\n

Cultural Marketing Makes Everything Authentic<\/h2>\n

Adiree Company created experiential pop-up shops in New York City, targeting cultural consumers. Communities of cultural consumers gathered over 2 days of Adiree activations and were able to commune, shop, eat African-Asian fusion finger foods while viewing video projections of Maasai women, their family, and her story of determination.<\/p>\n

Consumers were able to try on sandals. Sandles featured leather cut in Spain to align with Maasai designs and then sent to Maasai Mara, where they were furthered adorned by the Maasai manyattas<\/i> (encampments).<\/p>\n

The Maasai sandal is made with Semi-vegetable tanned leather, with a synthetic outsole bio-platform with a moderate heel height of about 1.7 inches. \"\"<\/a>The softness of the leather married to the gel\/foam formed cushion makes the shoes comfy. Sandles are true to size, yet for a comfier fit, size up.<\/p>\n

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The embroidered pieces are then sent back to Spain, where the footwear is completed and released to the distribution channels. The final result is a collection of beautiful sandals that reflects the essence of Maasai and the passion of Spain, with the colors and designs unique to cultural communities such as their.<\/p>\n

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“Thousands of miles away from New York,\u00a0 Swahili-speaking Massaii women were crafting\u00a0 our footsteps and creating a movement where shoppers could consume consciously” – Adiat Sade Disu, Founder of Adiree Company x Africa Fashion Week\u00a0 Pikolino sandals (shop here) were cultivated under The Maasai Project roughly eight years ago by Spain based company Pikolinos. And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14255,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adiree.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}