EIGHT & ARGÔT

Our project was born in 2016, led by the vision of its founder, Irene Ortega. After a 15-year international career specializing in foreign trade and marketing, Irene chose to explore her sensitivity for design, training alongside a renowned master shoemaker. This experience and its learning journey revealed the foundations that would shape EIGHT & OCTOBER:

A contemporary concept of women’s footwear with classic influences, patiently crafted, featuring a distinctive aesthetic and designs that transcend time.

Sometimes, innovation means having the courage to return to the origins —to what was already good: high-quality, locally crafted, artisanal, and traditional methods of the past. The best of the past, reimagined for the future.

If, like us, you’re one of those who have their heads in the clouds, then you also know how inspiring the view is from there. We see fashion as an artistic expression that fuses colors, silhouettes, techniques, prints, textures, and materials, where attention to detail and comfort harmoniously blend to create timeless classics.

After years of growing as a team, consolidating our operational principles, reaffirming our passion, and exporting it to over 25 countries, in 2023 we began a new phase towards online expansion with a new name, EIGHT & ARGÔT, thus highlighting our unique and creative language in footwear as the brand's DNA.

The driving force behind EIGHT & ARGÔT is to create storytelling shoes that become the focal point of an outfit. We firmly believe in creating evocative pieces that you can experience and which are the reason you smile today when getting dressed. We neither have nor follow rules. Who wants to be defined by just one thing? We certainly don’t.

We aim to continue evolving by doing more of what makes us who we truly are. Thank you for joining us on our journey.
There’s no greater journey than when head and heart are aligned!