For each of its projects, ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French arts scene. And the VIVACE project, a 100% vegan and 100% recycled sneaker is no exception.

We asked the dancer Andreas Maanli to be the image of the vegan collection. No question of erasing or appropriating his personality. He posed with his own look to defend the values of our project.

Andreas starts dancing in Mayotte, where he was born. Arrived in France in 2010, he follows a choreographic journey between Brittany and Paris. He dances in turn for Stromae, Mika or Lenni-Kim. He collaborates with Faizal Zeghoudi's company and performs the Faun in Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun in Master class Nijinsky, he was once the God of dance. Today Andreas is defending his new project on music and participates to hip-hop dancing battles.

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Change the world, battle make it more responsible for the planet, take care of our biodiversity. These are the values our VIVACE project is committed to upholding. For more than a year, we have worked with our Portuguese craftsmen and the SEAQUAL and PETA labels to offer our VIVACE sneakers made from plastic waste found in the oceans and rubber scraps, without any trace of animal material even in the glue! We wanted it to be unisex, beautiful, stylish, urban, timeless, durable and comfortable. Andreas proudly wears our sneaker with super powers.

Photo credit: Lily Rault

For each of its new projects, ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French arts scene. And the VIVACE sneaker, a 100% vegan and recycled sneaker is no exception.

We asked the singer, stylist, model and activist Thérèse to be the image for the new collection. No question of erasing or appropriating her personality. She posed with her own look. Thérèse is an elusive electron, a restless social crossroads. Like her career, her music is free, engaged, mixed, popular and demanding. This is what we value at ME.LAND, commitment, solidarity and a unique personality.

After the introspective "T.O.X.I.C" and the punch "Chinoise? », Her first EP «Rêvalité» completes the menu, like a main course. A synthesis of her vision on the current era, which persists in touching the heart and the body, to move the head. "Dreaminess" is a cry to live in a less stupid world.

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Change the world, make it more responsible for the planet, take care of our biodiversity. These are the values our VIVACE sneaker is committed to upholding. For more than a year, we have worked with our Portuguese craftsmen and the SEAQUAL and PETA labels to offer our VIVACE sneakers made from plastic waste found in the oceans and rubber scraps, without any trace of animal material even in the glue! We wanted it to be unisex, beautiful, stylish, urban, timeless, durable and comfortable. Thérèse perfectly embodies our new sneaker with super powers.

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple: Stay on the tracks? Follow the rules? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene as usual. Somaestro has agreed to take the pose for ME.LAND and chose his own sneakers in the collection.

Sofiane, twentyish, from Tremblay in the 93, discovered the piano a few years ago by chance in a flea market. He decides to learn to play it on his own to surprise his family on his little sister's birthday. He discovered a real passion for the instrument and never let go. While walking in a shopping center, he stumbles on a piano and starts playing it, not knowing that his friend was filming him.

Once posted on social networks, the video goes viral and quickly reaches 200,000 views, so much so that Booba, the French Rap singer, shares it on his own story. Sofiane then decides to be called Somaestro on Instagram and continues his momentum by performing on the piano the biggest hits of his favorite rappers, such as Ninho, Jul, Damso, and of course Booba. Seeing the craze, and 30,000 subscribers later, Somaestro decides to tell his own story by rapping his life on the piano.

His first single is called "My Piano" and the music video is produced by Kaid Productions, to whom we notably owe the clips for 13 Blocks "Little Heart" and "Fuck le 17".

Photo credit: Marie Magnin

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple: Stay on the tracks? Follow the rules? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene as usual. Maud Lübeck has agreed to take the pose for ME.LAND. No way to erase or appropriate her personality, she posed with her own look and chose the pairs she wanted to wear. Her choice immediately fell on our VIVACE pink, beige and white or navy, cognac and blue, a model that is 100% vegan and recycled from plastics recycled from oceans waste and labelled by PETA and SEAQUAL INITIATIVE.

Photo credit : Frank Loriou

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple: Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND invited artists from the French music scene. Emma Daumas has agreed to take the pose for ME.LAND sneakers. No question of erasing or appropriating her personality, she posed with her own look and chose the pair she wanted. Her choice immediately fell on our classic MEAKER in white and navy, our ME.LAND iconic sneaker.

Who does not know Emma Daumas? After debuts on TV in Graines de Stars and Star Academy, 4 albums and 1 novel, Emma Daumas returns with a new released opus, self-produced far from the dictates of record companies.

L’art des naufrages is a pop album, in French with real lyrics. The album of a long road of life, a funny odyssey, but an album of ten songs; ten entities which, discovered separately, would easily fit into radio programming, but which, viewed as a whole, will tell you ten years in the life of a woman. A woman who, against winds, dangers, misfortunes, and great joys never ceased to want to share her assumed freedom with her audience.

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And then, coincidence or not, Emma Daumas supports the Azur project to encourage the collection of plastic waste in the Mediterranean Sea. This is also our philosophy with our VIVACE 100% Vegan and Recycled sneaker. We are happy to carry this common project together.

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple: Stay on the tracks? Follow the rules? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND invited artists from the French music scene. Valentin Vander has agreed to be the image of the ME.LAND sneaker collection. No question of erasing or appropriating his personality, he posed with his own look and chose the pairs he wanted. His choice immediately fell on our iconic MEAKER in turquoise and in grey.

Valentin Vander's universe is a real field of experimentation between melancholy introspection and pop panache. The singer’s palette is tinged with humor and espiegle lucidity. It digs the groove of a racy pop song of understated elegance. His latest album, Mon Etrangère, tells of the procrastination of love, subtly illuminated by the halo of the challenges of our time: fidelity, exclusivity, the randomness of desires. With each measure he cherishes the hope of finding an answer. Of course, it never points the tip of his nose. Valentin Vander is a timeless artist, who plays with the codes of traditional French song by dressing it in a thousand pop fabrics and electronic ornaments. In the end, this stranger quickly becomes familiar.

During the first lockdown of 2020, Valentin organizes the confined symphonies where he brought together 45 musicians and singers from their place of confinement to perform la Tendresse immortalized by Bourvil in 1963 and Blowin 'In the Wind written by Bob Dylan in 1963. 

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ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple: Stay on the tracks? Follow the rules? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene. Joseph d’Anvers has agreed to be the image of the collection. No question of erasing or appropriating his personality, he posed with his own look and chose the pairs he wanted. His choice immediately fell on our iconic MEAKER in red and the high top HEAKER in white and navy.

Boxer, novelist, songwriter, composer, singer, movie director, Joseph d’Anvers is a multidisciplinary artist. His sounds and his words generate images, sequences, so many universes that unfold beyond the space of his songs. He creates sound lights, sets up melodic climates, infuses his electro pulsations, delivers a thousand and one stories tinged with romanticism, darkness, innocence.

Doppelgänger, his new album has so many stories that have escaped from his intimate, inexhaustible fictions. Doppelgänger means, the double in Nordic mythology but also the themes declined in his new opus, like a constellation of musical fictions.

Joseph just published a new novel: Garçon Ordinaire, we wish him good luck. Well done, Joseph.

Joseph also let us his music for one of our eco-responsible sneakers. An enchantment. Thank you, Joseph!

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene. DeSaintex, Antoine Lang, has agreed to take the pose for ME.LAND sneakers. No question of erasing or appropriating his personality, he posed with his own look and chose the pairs he wanted. His choice immediately fell on our DEAKER model for its mix of recycled materials and colors that makes it unique and unexpected.

Espiegle crooner, DeSaintex, Antoine Lang, continues to draw the vanishing point that he likes after having produced in quick succession two self-produced EPs 'Je vois, je crois' and 'Effigies' which led him to the Inouïs festival of Printemps de Bourges and to ensure the first parts of Gaetan Roussel or Voyou. He gradually deploys a unique, multi-faceted universe without ever trying to lock himself in the shackles of French song.

@antoinelaaaaang

Photo credit : Sarah Bastin

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene. Maissiat has agreed to be the image of the collection. No question of erasing or appropriating her personality, she posed with her own look, her signature hat and chose the pairs she wanted. Her choice immediately fell on our iconic MEAKER in a navy blue and our white DEBUT a sneaker with sporty, dynamic and contemporary lines.

In three albums, Maissiat, author, composer and performer, has established herself as a figure on the French scene. Tropiques in 2013 and Grand Amour then create a powerful and delicate pop. In 2016, she set up a musical reading, in which her diaries, songs and bedside texts correspond. It highlights the works of those who have changed her vision of the world (Sophie Calle, Françoise Sagan, Marguerite Duras, Alain Baschung…). Cinephile and passionate about image, Maissiat also composes original music for documentary films. Driven by a desire for sharing, meeting and transmission, she regularly participates in unique projects.

Maissiat has just released her new album Delta. It is pure magic ! did you listen to it ?

@maissiatofficiel

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND invites artists from the French music scene. Margaux Simone has agreed to be the image of our sneaker collection. No question of erasing or appropriating her personality, she posed with her own look and chose the pairs she wanted. Her choice immediately fell on our iconic MEAKER in a girly pink and the DEAKER for its mix of recycled materials and white, pink and turquoise colors that makes it unique and unexpected.

Margaux Simone invites us to travel into her new Modern Golden Age. A new EP with varied atmospheres, where each song can be heard like a short film. The characters and the sets are anchored in her native Riviera, which she likes to portray as a “Provence California” inhabitated by disco divas from the 70s, synthesizers from the 80s, reminding us the soundtracks of science fiction films.

Margaux has been following ME.LAND for several years, she wears it in concerts, she also lent us her music for several campaigns.

Thank you Margaux, we love you!

@margaux_simone

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to be the image of the collection. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

With her colorful personality and her touch of everything, Rosy Boop perfectly represents the DNA of ME.LAND. She decided to put the spotlight on the new model of the collection, DEBUT, for its contemporary side, as well as the MEAKER in red leopard and black version, WILD !!

A true showgirl, Rosy is an actress, singer, programmer and author. Her latest project is a single on stage "Betty Boop, the Strange Cabaret", a pocket musical that combines humor, songs, dance and thrills. She had a great tour and the opening act for Dionysus with this fantastic cabaret. A new musical show is in preparation. To be continued…

@rosy_boop

Photo credit: Gilles Crampes

Shooting : Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum

ME.LAND asked several French public figures to be the image of the collection. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

We have known each other for a long time with Agnès Bonfillon. She followed the beginnings of ME.LAND sneakers, as a friend, wrote the bio of the creator and supported with all her good humor the birth of the project. We asked her to pose for ME.LAND and it was with pleasure that she agreed to lend her aura to our MEAKER in burgundy patent calfskin for a photo shoot at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum.

Agnès began an internship at Radio Canada on September 11, 2001. Unable to send any reporter there after the ban on flights to the United States, Radio France asked her to leave Montreal the same day to cover the New York attacks. Her career was launched! She joined France Inter Radio and from 2004 presented the news from 7:30 am until 2009 before joining RTL Radio to replace Pascale Clark at the morning press review. From 2014 to 2019, she hosted RTL Grand Soir from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. before resuming in 2019 the presentation of the news for the morning weekend. Agnes is also a music fan, in 2009, she sang on a track for the group Weepers Circus. She created the band Lazy Days in which she sang with the journalist and writer François Thomazeau.

Thank you Agnès!

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Agnès Bonfillon

Armelle is a versatile artist. She performs at the Divan du Monde her first singing tour inspired and suggested by the Toulouse-Lautrec of Montmartre at the "Belle Epoque". With this beautiful tribute, she travels all over France and the United States. Her boundless energy and her qualities as an interpreter make her a true conveyor of emotions, an ambassador of the French repertoire.

Today, Armelle reinvents herself and sings her own updated and electrified repertoire. She becomes as free as the women of the Roaring Twenties whom she helped to (re) discover.

They are much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

For this new collection, ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to be the image of the collection. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them has taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

When we asked Armelle to participate in the ME.LAND adventure, she chose to pose proud, with her MEAKER at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum.

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ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred. ME.LAND propose a first step towards singularity. The shoes are made in limited series. An alternative, couture and unique style, different and exclusive color combinations on each model.

The Rodeo is the anagram of Dorothée, a mischievous self-taught musician and Parisian singer. After being noticed in English with her first two albums recorded in the four corners of the world "Music Maelström" (Naïve) and "La Musica Del Diavolo" (Claro Oscuro), her third album entitled "Thérianthropie Paradis" (Claro Oscuro), sung entirely in French and influenced by European pop rich in orchestrations from the 60's / 70's, marks a real turning point. The album is exported and concerts are followed in particular abroad (Germany, United Kingdom, South Korea, Brazil ...). A new fourth album entitled "Arlequine" has been release in 2022 to hear the thousand facets of a seasoned musician.

THE RODEO accompanied us with her kindness on our shoot and the making of a film at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum with ORFEU. An incredible match between artists and a multidisciplinary place. For the photo shoot, her choice fell on the new model in the collection, DEBUT, as well as the high HEAKER sneakers in a more feminine and winter version.

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ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them has taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

When we presented our project to Abel Cheret, he immediately accepted. A real pleasure to work with such a nice artist. His choice immediately fell on the new model of the season: DEBUT, with its sportier line.

We really appreciate Abel Cheret for his Histoires d’Amour Ultra Chelou on tropical rhythms. Nonchalance in the voice and in the quickdraw. Between Souchon, Katerine or even Tellier. Abel Cheret is animated by «the feeling of love and this in an absolutely exclusive way. Heart and ass tumbling, verbal somersaults and sensual twists and turns, bittersweet melodies and tropical electropop hits.» (Patrice Demailly, Liberation). The title Western Eros, a masturbatory epic against a backdrop of a spaghetti western, has been enchanting the waves of France Inter Radio since the beginning of summer. After having been invited by Vanessa Paradis and Severin in the first part of their concerts. Abel Cheret is on the concert route allover France.

@abelcheret

Ten years ago, Adrienne Pauly sang "J’veux un mec", she was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique and marked the spirits with her endearing and incandescent personality. She has since shot films, with Chabrol, Depardieu, Cornillac, Besnehard. She also sang, the Rita alongside Lavilliers and Adamo. She will return soon with an album that we dare not wait any longer.

https://gem-3910432.netME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to be the image of the collection. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

ME.LAND are much more than simple sneakers. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character. And that’s why we are proud to have Adrienne Pauly in the gang!

@adriennepauly

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred. ME.LAND propose a first step towards singularity. The shoes are made in limited series. An alternative, couture and unique style, different and exclusive color combinations on each model.

Photo credit : Gilles Crampes

Place : Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum

DaM has two passions, Fashion and Music. Passionate about Fashion and Music, Dam moved to Paris in 2000 to work in these two worlds (Karl Lagerfeld, Marithé & François Girbaud, Sonia Rykiel, Dirk Bikkembergs). That’s why he accepted straight away !

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ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred. ME.LAND propose a first step towards singularity. The shoes are made in limited series. An alternative, couture and unique style, different and exclusive color combinations on each model. And this is what we found in the music of ORFEU, an artist from Lisbon immigration, anchored in the popular Paris of the 20th arrondissement.

To pose, ORFEU chose the new model of the collection, DEBUT, for its sporty and contemporary side. Charismatic lead singer of NEÏMO band with 3 albums including a duet with the French icon singer DANI and numerous collaborations with Karl Lagerfeld, Bruno Alexandre launches into a new project: ORFEU. An elegant and sunny French pop, with subtly 90's flavors, distilled by Sourya during the production. Both incisive and bittersweet, cradled in saudade, his texts decant the amorous and societal disillusions of the beginning of the century.

His first single, “Samothrace” dances with the rules of romantic relationships in 2020, between punchlines and melancholy. It is this single that brings sound to the images of our collection shot at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum in Paris. ORFEU meets THE RODEO, two artists to follow!

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ME.LAND collaborates with artists from the French music scene. Nirman choose to wear during his concerts our HEAKER in black and navy, high top inspired from our iconic sneaker. A style, a comfort.

Natural initiation or hereditary transmission, Nirman enrolled in the Conservatory, listened to the Beatles on repeat and confessed at 13 that he would be a singer. After a passage through jazz, he released the EP Animal, a French song album tinged with hybrid pop and organic electro. In 2020, an album with strong emotional potential and unanimous reception. Under Da Silva's leadership, Nirman did not try to run behind the trends here. It’s a timeless record. A song especially, Azzam David won the text award at the Pic d´Or springboard in Tarbes and touched Francis Cabrel during a working residency in Astaffort.

A timeless record, therefore, with nuanced hues and in which the melodies creep in smoothly and with elegance. Ordinary words, touching with accuracy and simplicity. Like his interpreter. Thanks Dimitri!

@nirmanmusic 

Karine was introduced to theater acting when she met Antoine Campo, who distributed it in the great classical and contemporary repertoire. Public readings followed in the presence of the authors and / or associated artists (Michel Thion - Anne Luthaud ..) on the national stage of Belfort, Le Granit. Later, she was introduced to the art of storytelling with Marie-Pierre Caburet, Françoise Barret and Eve Ledig and performed at the L'Heure du Conte festival in 2006. She wrote and performed a tale around the mythical figure of the wyverns, Who will see you. Today, her images tell...

Her photographic productions by K.rine Burckel are published in various magazines and art books such as Chercheurs d'Art, Eyemazing or Arte Fotografica... Under the KpointRINE signature, Karine shoots for theater, music, press, communication (Cie Faizal Zeghoudi - Théâtre de La Reine Blanche - La Lune dans Les Pieds - Karen Lano - ME.LAND ...).

@kpointrine

Noah Schnapp or Noah Cameron Schnapp by his birth name, is an American actor, born October 3, 2004 in New York. He is known for playing in the series Stranger Things, broadcast since 2016 on Netflix, in the role of Will Byers.

Noah wore ME.LAND sneakers several times in an edition of A BOOK OF, an American magazine shooted in Tokyo in Autumn 2019 and during the Comicon of Sao Paulo in Brazil in December 2018.

A BOOK OF, an American magazine shooted in Tokyo in Autumn 2019 - Styling Philipp Euter

Sao Paulo Comicon December 2018 - Styling Philipp Euter - 

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Photo credit by Gil Lesage

Emilie is a French singer.

She has released her second album. Poetry of the words, rock n'roll attitude. Sensible and savage. Emilie Marsh, is first sweetness in the voice mix with the energy of a GuitarHero. A song that run through your body as an electrical choc.

A rock Punk attitude that Emilie Marsh and Myriam Moutoulatchimy, the MIMI MYMY project, offered to ME.LAND eco-responsible sneakers in an exclusive music for a video.

Thank you girls!

More than being a loyal customer, Gooz also dressed the images of Chloé Robineau for the Bright Fluo collection of ME.LAND. His music called MIDNIGHT POURSUITE responds to the tone of the collection and transports us into his resolutely electro-pop, heady, powerful and organic universe.

As a good DIY sound alchemist, Gooz builds his own synthesizers. He kneads the raw material to extract the particular sounds that come to feed his compositions. Pieces full of poetry on which hang a voice, his. A voice with charming pop 80 deliciously obsolete, naive and yet realistic. It tells us about love with modesty and sensitivity. It cradles us and comforts us, then carries us towards a better world, from darkness to light ... Gooz just release his new single 22h22.

As a good DIY sound alchemist, Gooz builds his own synthesizers. He kneads the raw material to extract the particular sounds that come to feed his compositions. Pieces full of poetry on which hang a voice, his. A voice with charming pop 80 deliciously obsolete, naive and yet realistic. It tells us about love with modesty and sensitivity. It cradles us and comforts us, then carries us towards a better world, from darkness to light ... Gooz just release his new single and plays with ME.LAND eco-responsible shoes on the cover.

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Jef Ouest gave us his music expertise to create a unique sound track SUPERSTAR to support ME.LAND eco-responsible sneaker collection. This soundtrack is wrapping the images made by Chloé Robineau who have been filming Montmartre good boys with a rebel hart all day long.

His voice, his phrasing, his tunes make him recognisable immediately. Jef Ouest (ex La Casa) is a man of his era. His poetry goes directly into your heart without being spouted nor confused. After his first EP, released in 2017 and more than 40 concerts, Jef Ouest released a new song «Populaire» produced by Camille Ballon and put into images by Chloé Robineau. Double listening and double vision, this song with a catchy name is an artistic change.

Image by Pierre Bonnard

Designer, illustrator and colorist. Marie de Lignerolles has been trained at Olivier de Serres texil design school, and to Design at ENSCI in Paris. After her graduation, she was appointed by the creation studio of BHV & Galeries Lafayette to work on furnitures, tablewear and lamps. She then joined Hermes for the design of the special orders.

In 2007 she decided to work as a freelancer and helped clients such as Monoprix or Hermes, but also more confidential project such as ME.LAND, Atelier Sauvage or Atimon on their artwork creation. She also teaches colours to young designers. Marie made exclusive artworks for ME.LAND eco-responsible shoes to express our values and put up together our seasonal look books. The color is our common bias.

@mariedelignerolles

Gerald Kurdian, musician, performer and photographer, has studied visual arts at l’Ensapc before joining the contemporary dance company Ex.e.r.ce under the direction of Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy.

Since then, he realsed several album – This is the hello monster!, Icosaèdre -,makes oblique concerts – Royal Gala (2005), 1999 (2009), 18 Chansons (2010), My first club- song ever (2011), The Magic of Spectacular Theater (2012), La Solidité des choses (2014), Les Îles Artificielles (2015), Hot Bodies – Stand up (2018) - research playfull synergies inbetween electronic music and performances with the obsession of a documentary vision. He does so during live performances (Crossing the Line – New York, Le Centquatre – Paris, Festival des Inaccoutumés – Paris, etc), contemporary art places (Centre Pompidou – Metz, Fondation Cartier, etc) or independents music spots (Musiques Volantes, 6par4, etc).

In 2017, he started a trans-disciplinary research project around sexual revolutions – HOT BODIES OF THE FUTURE! – and organise parties – A QUEER BALL FOR HOT BODIES OF THE FUTURE! – to honour all LGBTQIEA+ minorities as well as all the ones who support and love them. He currently works on his new album under the name of GAERALD (ex-Tarek_x).

Gerald accepted to photography the ME.LAND eco-responsible sneakers over colourful backgrounds and bring his own poetic and strange universe into ours.

@GaeraldXOXOXO_

Photo credit : Bernard Lachaud 

Gilles Crampes has participated on several campaigns shooting for ME.LAND eco-responsible sneakers. He really has taken the hit on the light, colors and body expressions to enhance our collections.

Gilles Crampes is a photographer specialised in in-depth sociological and ethnological reports. He has alternated international reporting, assignments and personal projects since 1994. His reports have been published in international press such as Newsweek, National Geographic France, Géo, The Independent, Le Monde, Grands Reportage etc.

Following from his international reporting where he illustrated Paris on the most curious ways –a 7 year work dedicated to Pigalle, Paris seen from heights of historical buildings…-, Gilles Crampes is currently concentrating on the different peoples living in Paris who originally emigrated from all over the world. His purpose here is to illustrate the cultural richness that has ensued, but also to study the preservation of these exiled cultures in Paris focusing upon their secular, spiritual or religious aspects.

This project is part of a personal work, with great series calling for reflection on the notion of travelling, that he has been developing for more than ten years. After Transient States –a series addressing consumerism in travels and images- Waterfront –paying homage to the first great maritime explorers and the local population encountered- Paris Célébrations is a series offering travel in reverse where peoples and cultures from all the continents intertwine in Paris, creating a World within a City. The project grew into a book published by Magellan & Company in November 2016.

Image by Marikel Lahana

Chloé Robineau aka ROBI approches film realization at least as much by necessity than by curiosity. It is a continuity of her vision, of her music creation. This medium is her laboratory of an inherent demand. Today, she puts her work of video maker supporting other artists accepting to confront her vision to other approaches, other forms and obsessions.

Chloé has put into images the ME.LAND eco-responsible sneakers. She is has been our first line keeper and always made it special. She succeeded in making Paris a place of shared fun and make our colorful sneaker collections an evidence.

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