313eko Editorial
The shoe is not just worn.
It is inhabited.
Lead Editorial
There is weight to a well-made shoe — not the weight of mass, but the weight of intention. Each stitch a decision made in a room that smelled of leather and concentration. Each contour a conversation between maker and material, ongoing, unresolved, beautiful in its incompleteness.
The sole remembers ground you no longer can. It carries the imprint of Lagos concrete at six in the morning, the dust of a city that moves before the rest of the world wakes. A shoe is not worn. It is inhabited.
At 313EKO, we begin with that weight. With the understanding that what you put on your feet is never incidental — it is the first thing the ground knows about you. We make shoes for people who understand the difference.
Stories
Vol. I
On craft, patience, and the Lagos workshops behind 313EKO
There is a room somewhere in Lagos — off a road that has no proper name, behind a gate painted a colour that used to be green — where shoes are made the long way. Not quickly. Not cheaply. The long way, which is the only way that produces something worth wearing.
Vol. II
On identity, nocturnal Lagos, and why what you wear after midnight matters
Lagos after ten is a different city. Not a darker version of the daytime Lagos, not the same streets with fewer people — a genuinely different city, with its own codes, its own grammar of movement, its own understanding of what it means to arrive somewhere and matter.
Vol. III
On scarcity, craft, and the 313EKO approach to drops
The phrase limited edition has been ruined. Ruined by overuse, by cynical marketing, by the practice of manufacturing artificial scarcity around products that are simply not exceptional enough to justify any scarcity at all. You have encountered this. You know the feeling — the sense of being manipulated, the suspicion that there are warehouses full of the limited thing, the weariness of being asked to want something because someone has decided to withhold it.
“Lagos made us. We made something
worthy of being worn out of it.”
— 313eko, Lagos
Past Editorials
Structures
Winter 2024
The Golden Hour
Autumn 2024
Blanc
Summer 2024
Terrain
Spring 2024
Silhouettes
Winter 2023
