History of Pendragon year by year – 2000

The turn of the century started with a bang at Woodford Folk Festival where we usually spend our New Years having a Pendragon Shoes stall. We started making a summer range – up until now we’d largely made boots and shoes, with just a few sandals thrown in for good measure. Crazy really, considering we live in Queensland where you hardly even get to wear boots for more than a month a year because of the warm weather. We made groovy slides with a distinctly spacey theme as well as the Elemental Collection – very much inspired by nature.
The slides featured a skew shaped sole and wide panel on top which was decorated with either a star, a spiral or a spaceship! Lots of fun and very colourful.
The Elemental Collection, inspired by elemental forces in nature, combined texture and colour.
Art nouveau was our muse for the collection, with the movement’s distinct organic aesthetic trickling through the soles and shapes of the shoes. Elemental designs included: Dragonfly nouveau sandals and butterfly sandals (air), fish thongs (water) and the gum leaf sandals and forest leaf sandals (earth).

We still make versions of these today. See the summer page.