ABOUT ISSUE 047 · MAY 2026 / about /

Hi, I am
Julie✱

I have been wearing minimalist barefoot shoes for several years now and cannot imagine going back to conventional footwear. This is the catalog I built for myself — and then everyone else.

Based in

Strasbourg, FR

ISSUE 047

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The barefoot shoe world has grown fast. What started as a small niche with just a handful of brands has exploded into dozens of makers, each with their own aesthetic, lasts, and price points.

At some point it just got hard to keep up — new models dropping constantly, brands launching in different countries, sizing that varies wildly. You'd find a brand on Reddit, lose the link, see a model on Instagram, fail to remember the name. The information was scattered across forum threads, blog archives, and YouTube reviews from 2019.

I built this site for myself, to keep track of what is out there. Then friends started asking me for recommendations. Then friends of friends. So here we are.

— J.
2026

What you are looking at is the result. A catalog that started as a browser bookmarks folder, became a spreadsheet so nothing would get lost, became a database, and finally — because I am stubborn about good typography and bad about saying no to side projects — became this.

Field notes.

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§ 02 · WHAT THIS IS

An independent catalogue.
Just models, filtered.

01 / what it is

A catalog, not a shop.

The catalog aggregates models from different brands and lets you slice them by the things that actually matter when you're shopping: style, gender, colour, size, price, vegan.

02 / who runs it

One person. Hi.

Me. I write the database, code the site with Claude, and answer every email personally. If that sounds slow — it sometimes is. If it sounds careful — it is that too.

03 / how it pays for itself

How this pays for itself.

A few brands and I have partnership agreements. In plain terms: if you follow a link from here and buy something, the brand thanks me in money for the fact that more people found their shoes and liked them. You pay exactly the same price either way. What it does not buy is a place here: which models get listed, how they are described and where they land in the sorting is decided the same way for every brand, commission or none. Most of the brands in this catalogue have no arrangement with me at all. I simply think they are cool, and I follow their new releases myself.

Got a brand
I should know about?

Questions, suggestions, a model that should be here, a typo on a product page, a cool small maker tucked away in some corner of the internet — feel free to reach out. I read every email.

Hi, I am Julie✱