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Mello Regenerative
A timeless silhouette in regeneratively-sourced leather, in three classic colors.
MY ROLEProject Management
Product Design & Development
Sourcing & Material Development
ALWAYS PUSHING THE ENVELOPE
As KOIO’s second Regenerative style, The Mello Regenerative took the ethos of the original Capri Regenerative one step further, replacing the Capri’s conventional rubber outsole with a Lactae Hevea outsole, made of 100% pure tapped Lactae Hevea tree rubber.
Along with a biodegradable footbed, this addition made the shoe largely biodegradable- a feat in commercially produced footwear.
From this…
…to this.
FASHION, BUT MAKE IT SUSTAINABLE
The Mello Regenerative in color ‘Summit’The white sneaker- a KOIO bestseller since the brand’s inception. Historical sales data showed that the KOIO customer always embraced a white sneaker, so we knew that to make the Regenerative capsule a success, we’d need to have a white offering.
Continuing to innovate, the Mello Regenerative in Summit was an exploration into how to create the coveted and eminently wearable white sneaker through sustainable means.
The creamy white color was achieved through Zeolite tanning, a new tanning method that differs from conventional tanning in that it is free of heavy metals.
Thus the production of this white leather was highly sustainable and resource-efficient, as the color results from the tanning process itself and not a separate, water-intensive coloring process.
The Mello Regenerative in color ‘Castagna’
The Mello Regenerative in color ‘Onyx’
