Vez Sandals.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: [small biz] COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

After designing and developing sandals for Chaco, Steve Chavez wanted to do his own thing. "I found myself going in a different direction artistically," he says, noting that he's "addicted to leather and women's footwear."

After Chavez left Chaco in 2006, he came up with a business plan to make handcrafted leather sandals, his wife signed off on it, and Vez and born. Now he makes five styles of fashionable women's sandals: the emotionally named Passion, Delight, Ecstasy, Desire and--new this...