HOMEBAKING.....

Time spent at home during lockdown has definitely focussed our attention on the kitchen! Everybody seems to be cooking up a storm and sharing their creations on WhatsApp and Instagram. And what can...

Covid Casual

Covid has caused us to re-evaluate a lot of things in life, not least of all the way we dress. We are now bombarded on a daily basis with pictures of slouchy pyjama sets, cashmere hoodies, yoga pan...

AUTUMN ORANGE

Autumn is our favourite Mandarina season - every day bringing changing colours to admire and inspire. Perhaps we are biased because orange is synonymous with our brand. The arrival of one of our or...

These boots......

“Are made for walkin’”, a husky-voiced Nancy Sinatra told the world in 1966… Well, more than fifty years later, baby, there never was a truer word. From style maven, Alexa Chung, to the (virtual) c...

Sold on Sneakers

We had never sold sneakers before! It was quite a thing when we started with espadrilles 5 years ago, but sneakers?  We dipped our toe in the water initially with a basic plimsoll range, and then w...

Beatitude Essential Oils

We are delighted to Showcase Rebecca O'Connor 's glorious Beatitude Essential Oils. We thought that the synergy of creating from scratch brought us together as unique brands and we chose our chic b...

Clare Arbuthnott

Clare Arbuthnott is a contemporary Scottish artist living in Edinburgh. Her work focuses on her native landscape, its coast and particularly the island of Iona. We thought we would match our suede ...

Vintage London - Emma Caderni

Emma Caderni specialises in sourcing and selling stylish and iconic pieces of 20th century fashion, accessories and jewellery for a discerning cliente. A graduate in Italian and Art History, Emma C...

2020 Royal Ascot & Yvette Jelfs

In 2020 as we all know, so many annual events have been cancelled. We have been looking back at photos of past years especially memories of the sporting calendar that require shoes and hats in abun...

Red means so many things..

Did you know that colours really mean so many things? When we were thinking about colour matches on our new Autumn/Winter collection I came across this amazing website Colour Matters explaining why...

Look Fabulous Forever

We were delighted when Tricia Cusden from the iconic Look Fabulous Forever contacted us and asked if she could showcase three of our Mandarina Shoes on Tea Time with Tricia, her daily Covid-born li...

Designing a Collection

“You are only as good as your last collection” is something we often hear in the retail shoe industry. At Mandarina Shoes we have several shoe and boot collections running at once to give the cust...

Shoe Quotes for Women

Calling all women, you can never have too many shoes. Successful women can still have their feet on the ground, they just wear better shoes. Shoes can change your life, just ask Cinderella.  A woma...

Andy Warhol Shoes

We posted on Instagram when Caroline went to see the Andy Warhol Exhibition. Shoe design has always fascinated us of course and pushing the boundaries on shape and style but keeping perspective is ...

The Hotel Guru

The Hotel Guru's mission is simply to find and review THE best places to stay around the world. They only include independent reviews of hotels that they are happy to recommend. Cleverly, they have...

Exotic Adventures for our Founder

Shandur in Northern Pakistan invites visitors to experience a traditional polo tournament which since 1936 has been held annually in the first week of July between the local teams of Gilgit and Chi...

#BrilliantBrandsTogether

Annabel & Grace (formerly CountryWives) and Mandarina Shoes have been in partnership a long time supporting each other as flourishing small brands with a similar demographic of wonderful fans! ...

Peachy Belts

Mandarina Shoes and Peachy Belts have collaborated over many years, the best choice of accessories together. We have many similarities in our work ethic, our choice for our customer and our love of...