KINAMANIA X Les Ephémères Pop Up For the holiday season, we popped up with Les Ephémères in a lovely creative space in the trendy bohemian neighbourhood of the Marolles in Brussels, where we introduced our very first Parchment leather goods collection "It's a beautiful day" and also, lead our very first leather maker workshop. It was quite an exciting time for the brand. Parchment leather...

Meeting with the shoe maker. I just got back from a two-day trip to Portugal to meet with the shoe maker and take decisions for the upcoming KinaMania derbies collection that will launch early November.Decisions about the shoe last, leather character and colors, sole, heel, laces, stitching. So many details in a shoe, and it is this close attention to...

KINAMANIA POP UP JUNE 22-23 IN THE MAROLLES, BRUSSELS Three weeks ago, KinaMania popped up with 4 other brands in the Marolles neighbourhood of Brussels for a 2-day boutique concept. { I actually intended to write this post much earlier, but you know how time flies by, especially that I am in the midst of finalising the upcoming shoes and...

KINAMANIA X KANAL CENTRE POMPIDOU So much happening these days for KINAMANIA, with more to come in the near future. I can proudly announce that carefully selected styles of the kina abarca are on display at Kanal Centre Pompidou, the museum of modern and contemporary art and architecture in Brussels.   KINAMANIA SUSTAINABLE DISPLAY The kina display stand was designed expressly for Kanal...

THE MANIA FOR KINAS The mania for kinas – in other words the kinamania – began with a line of abarca-inspired flats. The popular Spanish sandal, is where it all started : it sparked KinaMania's adventure! KinaMania is a brand name with roots in menorquina and mallorquina, the alternative names for the Balearic slip-on which was originally handmade on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca....

THE 'SNEADAL'  A kinamaniac calls them the “sneadals”. She bought a kina pair of abarcas and she just can’t take them off! Most of us, women especially, have countless pairs of shoes in our closets, yet very few we actually wear. Why is this? Because as awesome as they might look, they are just not comfortable. And a pair of...

  KINAMANIA X SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY The people that we collaborate with are the most significant part of our work and of the products that you purchase from KINAMANIA. Artists, artisans and NGOs are behind each of our Voyage capsule collections. Being committed to bringing handicraft stories to global and socially conscious consumers, to date we have joined hands with two...