Home Base: Los Angeles
The Founders: Robert Nand and Rich Cofinco. Both had formerly worked in the footwear industry. In 2002, they started Creative Recreation to fill a gap they noticed in the marketplace - the hybrid comfort casual sneaker.
Company Credo: To design the ultimate "crossbreed" shoe.
Did You Know: Creative Recreation only makes 90-500 pairs worldwide of each colour and style of shoe. Select Creative Recreation shoes are available within Canada exclusively at Holt Renfrew.
Defining Style: Originality and imagination. Footwear for young professionals with style. The "bourgeois sneaker."
The Model: The Coletti is for the person who wants an option to the traditional leather-bottom dress shoe. The comfort of a sneaker with the grown-up look and materialization of a dress shoe. Calfskin and full grain. Black-on-black perforated leather and patent white stripe or white-on-black perforated leather and blue stripe.
By Robin Payne
