Andrea's passion for crafting shoes from recycled material started with a broken sandal in Australia, when he spotted an abandoned tyre he turned into a new pair of sandals to resume his walking journey.

Since then, back home in Piombino on the Italian coast, Andrea saw a new creative opportunity in fishing nets beached near his homeplace. Soon enough, he was able to use them in his range of fashionable sandals and boots.

The fishing nets - banned by the EU since they are terrible for marine life - are collected in the local ports. They are cut and washed several times to soften the fabric for wearability, and then dyed with natural pigments. The nets are then combined with cork for the insole, recycled rubber sole and waste leather left over from shoe production. The sole itself comes in two versions, one composed of recycled Vibram rubber soles and the other of recycled, vegetable-tanned leather.