About Sakinamour
Sakinamour
Sakinamour is a design-led footwear brand focused on clarity, material integrity, and long-term wear. Each style is developed as a considered object rather than a seasonal statement, shaped through restraint, line, and a disciplined approach to form.
The brand operates through a deliberately slow design process, prioritizing coherence and durability over trend cycles or volume production.
The Designer
Sakinamour was founded by footwear designer and creative director R. Sheldon T. McKenzie El, whose career spans senior in-house roles and consulting work with international footwear brands including adidas, Salomon, Icebug, and others.
The project emerged from a desire to apply a more deliberate, design-driven methodology to contemporary footwear — one rooted in authorship, construction logic, and material sensitivity.
Design Approach
Sakinamour footwear is developed through a hands-on design process that places equal weight on visual restraint, construction integrity, and everyday usability.
Design decisions are guided by an emphasis on line, scale, and structural balance, informed not only by technical reasoning but also by intuition and a sensitivity to underlying rhythm and symbolic coherence.
Rather than pursuing novelty, the brand focuses on resolving form — refining silhouettes until they feel complete and internally consistent.
Production Method
All Sakinamour footwear is developed and produced within a dedicated sample room environment rather than a conventional production line.
This approach allows for a higher level of construction control, material precision, and design refinement than is possible at industrial scale. Each pair is shaped through a slower, hands-on process that supports the level of detail present in each design.
This method of production directly informs both the quality of the product and the limited nature of every release.
Materials
Sakinamour footwear is constructed using premium cow leather uppers, calf leather linings, and latex rubber outsoles — selected for durability, tactile quality, and their ability to maintain structure through long-term wear.
From leather selection to final finishing, each element is considered for how it will perform, age, and retain visual clarity over time.
Footwear is developed in Germany and crafted in China through close collaboration with specialized production partners.
Limited Production
Sakinamour releases footwear in small, considered quantities. This allows for greater focus, quality control, and long-term design integrity — rather than seasonal excess.
Each style is produced as a complete, resolved object rather than as part of a mass-market cycle.
Sakinamour exists as an ongoing design project — shaped by restraint, material intelligence, and a belief in the value of well-considered objects.
