The Monarch in Moda (LM x Ink Dwell)
The Monarch in Moda (LM x Ink Dwell)
Finally, a shoe for all your migrations. The Monarch in Moda shoe brings to life its namesake mural through over 50,000 embroidery stitch points, carefully designed and executed by a team of embroidery specialists in Portugal. You can read more about this collaboration and the monarch butterfly below.
CERTAIN SIZES ARE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY BY PRE-ORDER FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY, FROM SEPTEMBER 14-28* (if your size is sold out, select your size with the pre-order option in the drop-down menu)
Details
Embroidered textiles from Portugal.
Vegan - the lining and trim are a new, eco-friendly microfiber technology that provides breathability and the feel of leather.
Supportive insole and removable footbed.
Rubber soles.
Waxed cotton laces.
Shoes made by hand and with love in Portugal.
View lookbook here.
Le Mondeur and Ink Dwell proudly support the Xerces Society — a nonprofit organization that protects the natural world by conserving invertebrates and their habitat.
*Pre-order means that your shoes will be made to order. Production time is approximately 10 - 12 weeks after the pre-order period ends with an estimated delivery in December. All pre-order sales are final. Exchanges for different sizes are possible depending on availability.
Fit Tips: Our shoes come in whole, European sizes. The sizing is unisex. If you wear a half size or larger width foot, we typically recommend ordering the size up.
INSPIRATION: MONARCH IN MODA & THE MONARCH MIGRATING MURAL
Monarch in Moda. Ogden, Utah.
The Migrating Mural is a public art campaign that highlights wildlife along migration corridors it shares with people, making creatures that are easy to overlook impossible to ignore. The focus of Ink Dwell’s current Migrating Mural is the monarch butterfly, a beautiful and beloved insect found across North America. Currently, Ink Dwell has created nine unique Monarch Migrating Murals across four states in an effort to drive protection and support for these imperiled pollinators.
Ink Dwell’s Monarch in Moda mural, created in 2018 in Ogden, Utah, is the inspiration for Le Mondeur’s eponymous shoe. As Ink Dwell’s sixth unique Monarch Migrating Mural, Monarch in Moda explores pattern and color. Best known for their rich orange coloring, monarchs also flaunt dramatic black and white spotting on their wings and body, reminiscent of patterns used in Op Art work. Rooted in the concept of perception and movement, Op Art, short for “Optical Art”, uses a complex composition of patterns and colors to confuse and excite the eye, much like monarchs themselves. The mural lives on the walls of a new 60,000 square-foot creative space that anchors Ogden’s Nine Rails Art District.
Monarch Migrating Mural. Clockwise from top left: Midnight Dream (Downtown Orlando, Florida), Milkweed Galaxy (Full Sail University, Florida), Le Papillon (San Francisco, California), and Generations (Weber State University, Utah).
about ink dwell
The artist, Jane Kim, painting the Monarch in Moda mural in Ogden, Utah.
Ink Dwell studio creates art that explores the wonders of the natural world. Merging classical techniques of science illustration with modern fine art, they make everyday places special and enhance iconic locations with wondrous and monumental imagery.
Jane Kim is a visual artist, science illustrator, and the founder of Ink Dwell, a Bay Area studio that explores the wonders of the natural world. Her art career started when she was a little girl obsessively painting flowers and bears on the walls of her bedroom. She received more formal training at Rhode Island School of Design and then Cal State Monterey Bay, where she received a master’s certificate in science illustration. She has created large-scale public art across the country, including the Wall of Birds at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and produced works for the National Aquarium, the de Young Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Weber State University, and more. She is the creator of the Migrating Mural campaign, a series of public installations that highlight wildlife along migration corridors it shares with people. She still enjoys painting flowers and bears, though nowadays she doesn’t get in trouble for painting on the walls.
THE DISAPPEARING MONARCH
In 2014 the federal government estimated that native wild pollinators contribute $9 billion in crop benefits. Yet, despite their importance, monarchs—like many pollinators—are in decline. The size of the eastern monarch’s Mexican wintering colony has dropped two-thirds since 1996-1997, while the winter population of western monarchs has fallen from 4.5 million in the 1980s to just 28,429 in 2018. The federal government is currently considering listing the monarch as an endangered species.