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Zara Cooper fell head over heels for barefoot shoe brand PaperKrane and found love along the way

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PaperKrane flew into Zara Cooper’s life and brought the winds of change with it. The mum of three was a customer of the cult barefoot shoe brand when she approached co-founder Kate Corleison with a proposition to grow the brand from its baby shoe niche into a global footwear company. Leaving the law firm she’d founded, Zara embraced her new life as an entrepreneur and helped expand the brand from booties to children’s shoes and adult footwear.

That’s not the only change PKs (as PaperKranes are known among their fervent parent followers) brought into Zara’s life. She met a woman whose child was wearing PKs – and fell in love.


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