BEHIND FLARELLE
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THE BRAND
Flarelle was founded in 2025 around one idea: the shoes you wear every day deserve the same care as the ones you keep for special occasions. We make ballet flats and loafers in Tuscany, in small collections, in a workshop near Pisa where every pair is made under one roof.
Much of Italian shoemaking still happens in small workshops, quietly, with no famous name on the door. We chose one in Tuscany and work with it directly, pair by pair.
THE CONCEPT
Ballet flats and loafers are the shoes you reach for every morning without deciding to. We focus on them because they work all day: low, soft and light on the foot for the hours that matter, and elegant enough to go from a morning in the city to dinner without changing shoes.
We believe beauty and comfort belong together. So we choose soft leathers: goat suede that softens with wear, calf velour with a deep matte finish, kidskin nappa with a grain so fine the surface looks seamless. No logos, nothing that belongs to a single season.
TRACEABILITY
Every pair is made at Calzaturificio Ballerina in Montopoli in Val d’Arno, near Pisa: around twenty people, one roof. We know them, we visit them, and we have watched our shoes take shape there.
The leather is goat and calf, from three Italian tanneries: Conceria Derma in Solofra, Conceria T&T in Naples and Conceria Only Leather in Ponte a Egola. We name them because you should be able to know where your shoes begin.
For us, Made in Italy is simple: Italian tanneries, one Italian workshop, nothing outsourced. It is easier to believe when it has an address.
We celebrate
the transformative power of color
No black. Only colour. We have never made a black shoe. We prefer the colours of a Tuscan year: dusty rose, the colour of dawn by the sea; limoncello; olive green; the brown and gold of the chestnut woods in October. Each season arrives with its own palette, and the shapes stay the same, so what you bought last year is never out of date.
Even the names come from the landscape: Castagna for the chestnut, Foschetta for the haze over the valleys, Brezza for the breeze.
COMMITMENT TO SLOW FASHION
We make limited collections, in numbers a small workshop can finish properly. It is the opposite of the fast fashion pace: fewer pairs, made without rushing.
Fewer pairs, chosen with care. Classics that don't wait for a trend to make sense, and don't expire when the season does.
For us, slow is a way of living as much as a way of making: shoes you keep, wear and look after for years.
