Being vegan rocks…. except of course when it comes to fashion. Many of the hippest hottest fashions for our bodies and our feet are still made with animals, making it hard to be on the forefront of fashion and the forefront of animal activism.

Natalie Portman, as you know if you’re a regular TakePart reader, decided to do something about it and designed some awesome vegan shoes. And here she is talking about them:

Pretty cute huh!?

It’s pretty hard not to like Natalie Portman and it’s even harder not to like pretty shoes.

takepart and go here for Treehugger’s mini-directory of green fabrics so you can do more than dress responsibly on your feet.

Read on:

• Portman Brings the Vegan Shoes, Project Runway Goes Green
• Natalie Portman Takespart!
• Natalie Portman Loves Kiva