TOMS Steps Over Floating Pool to Win People's Design Award
Seventeen months ago, Blake Mycoskie didn’t know a vamp from a toe box, but since then, he has founded a shoe company, sold thousands of pairs worldwide, and, in 10 days, will travel to South Africa to distribute 50,000 free pairs to children there. At last night’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards gala in New York, 31-year-old Mycoskie accepted the second annual People’s Design Award on behalf of TOMS Shoes, which edged out the Floating Pool in down-to-the-wire
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