World Sight Day, 24 hours dedicated to raising awareness of blindness and vision impairment as a global public health issue, takes place on Thursday, October 13. TOMS Shoes, having recently unveiled its new One for One eyewear line, is advocating the event via live public art.
TOMS Shoes Supports 'The Right to Sight' Via Live Public Art
TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie Tells Us About One-for-One Eyewear and How Every Stripe Tells a Story
We caught up with TOMS founder and CEO Blake Mycoskie after he revealed the next chapter in the five-year-old company's unique one-for-one business model on Tuesday. In the video below, find out how the eyeglasses idea, which had festered in Mycoskie's head since 2007, finally became reality, more on the one-for-one concept, and why there's no TOMS logo on the sunglasses -- only three distinctive stripes.
TOMS Shoes' Next Chapter is One-for-One Eyewear
With the snip of a lock and the opening of a "mystery box" that had been sealed since SXSW, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie revealed the next chapter in the Santa Monica-based company's one-for-one mission: Eyewear.
Go 'One Day Without Shoes' On April 5
Kick off your footwear this Tuesday, April 5, and join TOMS for One Day Without Shoes - the official global movement to raise shoe awareness. Typically TOMS promotes One for One, their mission to give one pair of new TOMS shoes to a child in need per each pair of TOMS shoes purchased. But April 5 is not about shoe sales...
Interview: TOMS Shoes' Blake Mycoskie on the One Millionth Pair Donated
We caught up with TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie on a return trip to Argentina (where the idea was originally hatched) for TOMS One Millionth Pair Shoe Drop.
PhiLAnthropist Interview: TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie Plans to Give Away 300,000 Pairs in 2009
What happens when you travel to Argentina to learn how to play Polo? You start a sustainable and socially conscious shoe company. Of course.
Celebrating the Holidays at Children's Hospital with Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel and Santa with a patient at CHLA.
LAist Goes Shopping: TOMS Shoes Pop-Up Store
A few weeks ago, TOMS Shoes invited LA bloggers to check out their pop-up store on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Due to their overwhelming success, the store, which was only supposed to stay until September, will continue to occupy the space until January. TOMS sells (and gives away) shoes all over the world, however this is their first and only store. This holiday season they aim to give away 30,000 pairs of shoes to children in need in Ethiopia, so it's definitely worth checking out, especially for some holiday shopping.

