From the Andes
to your feet.

A shoe made from wild alpaca, banana fiber, and three generations of knowing the land. This is where it started.

Designed with nature.

From the Andes to your feet

Juntos.

That’s Spanish for together.

Though right now, it’s a critical word in any language. 

Because if we humans are going to enjoy living on this planet together 50 years from now, we have to do things to help it... together. 

They don’t need to be big things.

There’s world-changing power in small shifts made by us all. Like driving one less day a week, eating one more plant-based meal, or choosing a more Earth-friendly pair of shoes.

A strong belief in that collective energy is how Juntos came to be.

It started with the street shoe.

Inspired by el zapato de lona — the beloved canvas shoe worn on the streets of Ecuador for generations — we saw an opportunity to rethink something used by everyone, everywhere.

We reimagined the everyday shoe using materials found in abundance in the Ecuadorian landscape: wild alpaca wool, fiber drawn from banana stems after harvest, cushioning made from coconut, minimize synthetic applications. Nothing extracted carelessly.

We built a supply chain we could stand behind.

The Founder

Mauricio Laniado grew up between Ecuador and Miami — between a banana farm his family has worked for three generations and a country that had never heard of el zapato de lona.

He studied at Syracuse. Taught English to kids in Ecuador. And kept coming back to the same question: why did products made in places like this never carry those places with them?

Most brands know where their shoes end up. Mauricio wanted to know where everything started — and make sure that story made it all the way to you.

He started asking a different question: what if the supply chain was the product?

Two people holding alpaca wool in grassy field with mountains, Juntos sustainable materials.

"I developed Juntos in between Ecuador and New York, always aware of how something as simple as a shoe carried identity. My family has farmed bananas there for three generations. When I went back to find the right materials, I was going home."

— Mauricio Laniado, Co-founder · 3rd-Generation Banana Farming Family.

Built in Brooklyn. Rooted in Ecuador.

The Andes gave us the materials. New York gave us no room to get it wrong.
Juntos lives in the space between those two truths — rooted in Ecuador, built in Brooklyn, answerable to both.

Juntos. Together.



Learn more about our ESG standards here.

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A backpack full of whats next.

When a pair comes back to us, it doesn't stop there. Returns become school supply backpacks, donated to students through StyleSaves.org. The end of one journey becomes the beginning of another.

Sustainability message: Good for People and Planet
We know where everything
comes from. Exactly.

Most brands can't tell you which farm or which hands touched your shoes. We can, because we built the supply chain ourselves. From the Mazar Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador to your door. Verite-certified. Traceable at every step. Not a claim. A fact.

Built by people who brought
something the industry didn't have.

Juntos is woman and minority-operated. That's not a credential — it's the reason the brand exists. The perspective that found el zapato de lona on an Ecuadorian street and saw a global product is the same one that built this company. It shows up in everything.