Category Posts
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- 7 Canadian Travel Destinations that Inspired Our Boots
- Why Does Sustainable Fashion Cost More?
- Domestic Manufacturing: Fashion’s Ethical Future in Canada
- Fast Fashion vs. Sustainable Fashion
- Why would a mask have fiber glass in it?
- The 6 Stages of Mask Wearing
- A 2020 Wrap up for Oliberte and COVID-19 Response. Locked down, but never locked out.
- What does a medical mask even mean? ASTM, non-medical, surgical, I don’t get it.
- Why not add another machine for the fun of it.
- You make it in Canada, Eh? You need to raise your prices? What!?!
- Heat Wave vs Masks: Heat Wave 1, Mask 0. To be continued.
- Oh, Peter Pan, can’t you make a mask already?
- First Made in Canada Oliberte Masks come off the line.
- Our Mask Machinery has arrived.
- So what’s with the KN95 Mask? I’m confused.
- The puzzling part of the KN95.
- What we believe sets Oliberte apart today.
- We just delivered 10 Million Masks, but do we really need a mask and other questions.
- Oliberte Direct for Masks is Live
What’s in a (Bag) Name?
Usually, we name each of our footwear styles for a place in Africa. However, for the debut of our Oliberté bags, we decided to do things a little differently.
Each bag name, instead, is dedicated to a person who is integral to the bags’ creation and our company in general.
This is Dagnachew, the man behind two of the styles and the inspiration for the bag name DAGNA. The YONA is named after our Ethiopian production manager’s son, Yohanus. The EMANU is named after our Ethiopian assistant manager’s son, Emmanuel. And the TEME is named after our other Ethiopian bag creator, Temesgen.
These bags were made in Zambia and Ethiopia. We can’t be more stoked to start branching out to these new products, or more proud of the folks behind them. And with fall coming up soon, we’ll have even more to brag about.