United Nude

United Nude launched in 2003 with the ‘Möbius’ shoe. Since that time, the United Nude brand has established itself as an iconic brand at the intersection between design and fashion. United Nude products are about clear concepts, elegance and innovation. Co-founded by Rem D Koolhaas and Galahad Clark, United Nude is part of a creative collective, functioning as a hub of interaction between architects, fashion designers, editors and photographers. This story begins with a broken heart. Rem’s attempt to get the girl back was inspired by the notion the perfect romantic deed he would be able to woo the girl back into his life. While most romantic notions are often foolish, what was hatched through the inspiration of romance was the ‘Möbius’ shoe. Conceptually, the shoe is a Möbius band where a single strip forms, at once, the sole, heel, foot-bed and upper. The Möbius concept for a shoe was found by transforming the frame of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair. Low and behold a revolutionary idea and design for a shoe, add Galahad Clark to our story. The seventh generation of the English Clark's shoe-making family. Galahad had recently collaborated with his father Lance on the Terra Plana brand and had worked with the Wu Tang Clan on shoes the Clarks brand and upon glancing at the Möbius shoe design was instantly convinced that a new brand had to be formed. Rem and Galahad joined together and formed the United Nude design company and brand. (The name derived from the fact that products evolve from international teams in an open way with direct recognition.) The firts girl never came back, but of course new love was found!