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\u201cI said, \u2018let's go on Zappos and look up Zappos and vegan.\u2019 And so I searched it\u2026 and I said, \u2018let's see what you get when you search that.\u2019 And they had gardening clogs, they had like a croc shoe. And I said, \u2018why don't you guys go look at how many people opt out after they see that and then you might buy my shoes.\u2019 That was a Friday and Monday they bought 18 styles.\u201d Rebecca Mink

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Rebecca Mink is the founder of the very first vegan luxury shoe brand, Mink Shoes. Mink Shoes have been around since the year 2000, way before anybody was making anything luxury vegan. She started the brand because for the years leading up to it, she\u2019d been a celebrity wardrobe stylist and there was nothing vegan out there to put on their feet.

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\u201cI was buying 25 or 30 thousand dollars of leather shoes a month for these clients, and I was sick over it. I was walking into the shoe department of Neiman Marcus and getting the best of this and that\u2026 shopping and buying things that I didn't believe in. I could do [vegan] everything except for the shoes, everything. I could even get away with certain belts, metal belts, different things. But I could not put someone on the red carpet in what we had at that time, which was Payless.\u201d \u2013 Rebecca Mink

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Over the years, she has made custom shoes for celebs like Miley Cyrus, Natalie Portman, Madonna, Pamela Anderson, and Jennifer Lopez.

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Rebecca\u2019s next big thing is the launch of Mink Vegan Leather, a bio-based leather made from upcycled plants, coming to the world in 2023.

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https://minkshoes.com/

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https://minkshoes.com/pages/vegan-leather

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https://www.instagram.com/minkshoes/