{"id":16472,"date":"2026-08-25T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/monkuniverse-reimagines-walking-with-its-monk-bare-foot\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:09:30","slug":"monkuniverse-reimagines-walking-with-its-monk-bare-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/monkuniverse-reimagines-walking-with-its-monk-bare-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkuniverse reimagines walking with its Monk (bare) Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The brainchild of Giacomo Gallina, a fashion and footwear designer with nearly twenty years\u2019 experience in the luxury sector, the launch of the Monk (bare) Foot project sees the brand introduce a lightweight, high-quality shoe, designed to revolutionise the concept of walking in line with the philosophy of emptiness and meditation in motion.<\/p>\n

The brand name encapsulates its very essence: \u2018Monk\u2019 evokes the figure of the monk, whilst the concept of \u2018Mu\u2019 \u2013 the answer to an ancient Japanese koan meaning \u2018nothing\u2019 or \u2018emptiness\u2019 \u2013 manifests as a creative force, the true origin of every generative process.<\/p>\n

The Monk (bare) Foot project translates this philosophy into a physical experience that simulates walking barefoot, an ancient Zen meditation practice. To recreate the sensation of natural contact with the ground, the shoe features the Vibram FF Cup sole: an ultra-thin shell, just a few millimetres thick, made of \u2018zero-drop\u2019 rubber (with no height difference between heel and toe). The extraordinary flexibility of this component is combined with the excellence of Italian craftsmanship. The upper, made from genuine full-grain leather, is stitched directly to the rubber sole, whilst the insole is made from genuine leather. Production is entirely entrusted to a small artisanal shoe factory in the Veneto region, a guardian of the \u2018Made in Italy\u2019 tradition.<\/p>\n

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Born in the heart of the Veneto footwear district, the project combines high-quality Italian craftsmanship with the deepest Zen philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news-arsutoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}