2015-2018 Bella | Ha Collections
“Each Bella | Ha collection isn’t just inspired by a particular area of the world, it directly benefits the people who live there.”

Bella | Ha launched with The Khánh Hòa Collection—a deeply personal collection inspired by the lovely people and mesmerizing surrounds of the southern Vietnamese province by the same name. Vietnam played a special role in this namesake collection and the Bella | Ha brand as a whole. It was where founders Keely and Mick Solimene adopted Isabella (Bella) from an orphanage, and the country they got to know intimately as they searched for, and later adopted, her identical twin sister, Ha.

The original collection was sustainably made from salmon skin, leaving a literal and metaphorical “light footprint” on the earth. Each pair of shoes also had a tiny metal tag with the longitude and latitude of the region benefiting from the shoes’ purchase.

The second collection, the Zanzibar Collection, brought Bella | Ha to Africa. Inspired by the colorful Zanzibar Region of Tanzania where the design was pulled straight from this beautiful corner of the globe, like salmon skin footbeds and delicate rope tassel. As in the Khánh Hòa collection, longitude/latitude tags honored the place.

For both collections, Bella | Ha was inspired by mothers and babies around the world. To serve them, Bella | Ha literally lights the way with We Care Solar and its Solar Suitcases, bringing light to area birth clinics.

Bella | Ha has continued spreading light to birth clinics in Sierra Leone and Uganda through We Care Solar's Light Every Birth initiative.