The leather around the eyelets oxidizes overtime to form a unique patina. Most notably, the shoe features a unique construction utilizing APPARITION leather, the world's first translucent calfskin leather developed by Sruli Recht and ECCO.
Sruli Recht has long been a dark figure in the world of fashion and design; known for pushing the boundaries when it comes to wearable art, he is renowned for his avant-garde designs and revolutionary work with natural materials. Some of his most defining works include gloves made with the skin of a basking shark, an asphyxiation belt using dolphin skin, and even a leather ring made with a strip of his own skin. His work has placed him as a luminary at the foremost of material science innovation, hence it was no surprise that ECCO sought him out to lead their quest for translucent leather. The result, after several years
