ZoFA footwear, designer shoes, designer boots, handmade shoes

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Do you know what your shoes are thinking of you? When do the shoes feel happy to go out? What do your toes talk about inside that shoe? Why does your favorite pair of boots sometimes hate your favorite dance? What if your toes were claustrophobic? In creating ZoFA design shoes we work to find answers to somewhat paradoxical questions – be they rhetoric or real – because they open the doors to the uninhabited world or shoes...

Passionate interest in design and an idiosyncratic understanding of shoe aesthetics were some of the reasons why Elina Dobele, a practicing architect, created her shoe brand ZoFA in late 2008. ZoFA is the first design footwear label and production atelier in the Baltic States, that during few years of work has gained notable publicity in Latvia and has first sales points around the world.

ZoFA shoes are hand made all through –  up to the smallest detailing. The manufacturing process takes place in Riga - ZoFA atelier. Cooperation with every client is a personalized and sensitive process, it accounts for careful selection of shoe material to satisfy both visual and practical functions.

The craftsmen employed at the small shoe making enterprise love their craft and do their job with utmost reponsibility and higest respect for the wearer.