Melody Ehsani

Born and raised in Los Angeles in a traditional Persian family, like many of my cousins and friends I applied to go off to law school after college, but I couldn’t stay there I decided to break with my culture and follow my heart into a field I was internally drawn to…design. The more I designed shoes and products, the more it felt like the right thing for me to be doing. So now I believe that design is part of what I was designed to do. I guess you could say that design is part of my divine blueprint. I believe that honoring my blueprint helps me bring into the world new patterns of behavior and equality for myself and for all women in the future. In my culture, a woman’s value and status are determined by her marriage. This is a difficult and challenging concept for many women in today’s world. By following my calling and making shoes, I am helping women resolve these kinds of paradoxes. I want to become my true self and be a vibrant member of a family and a community. I want the women who wear my shoes to have the same opportunity for equality, wholeness, and self-expression. My style is inspired by paradox, controversy, justice and pushing the envelope in showing that you truly can’t judge a book by its cover. I design to upset the equilibrium. I design to inspire. I design to serve. I design because I was created to do so. A portion from each pair of Ehsani shoes purchased will go towards the advancement and education of women in our society.

-Melody Ehsani

www.melodyehsani.com