Flip-flops are called the “poor man’s shoe” and are one of the worst polluters in the ocean. But a leading fashion label in Paris is helping a resourceful African community to step up with a new range of footwear.
The imaginative programme is giving slum children new hope while cleaning up the environment.
Each year thousands of slip-ons wash up on Kenya’s beaches, flushed out of rivers or funnelled by currents in the Indian Ocean from Asia and Australia.
Ocean Sole, a social enterprise scheme, is fashioning the footwear into pieces of art — and the French design label Chloé is using the recycled material in its latest line named Lou.
The Kenyan art group is handling up to a million flip-flops a year along
