John Fluevog

In 2007 after a spontaneous performance in the Vancouver storefront, Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction, gravitated toward the store's women's heels. Inspired by the performance, Fluevog designed a 2.5" men's high heeled boot named "Perry", which was manufactured in blue faux-crocodile, black snake, and mirror silver leathers for Fluevog's Fall '08 line.

In 2002, Fluevog created an online site where anyone can submit shoe designs. If a submission is selected, the shoe is named after its creator. As of April 2015, there were fifteen open source submissions manufactured. Other Fluevog collaboration designs have included a snowboarding boot with Ride Snowboards, a bicycling shoe with Race Face Bikes, a shoe with the Danielson Family, and a Riding boot designed with Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols.

By the end of the 1990s, Fluevog had stores in San Francisco and Chicago also. These were followed in the 2000s by stores in Los Angeles, Montreal, and a new flagship store in Gastown. As of April 2015 there were 19 Fluevog stores in North America.

During the 1980s, Fluevog store was the first to import Dr. Martens shoes into North America. By the 1990s, Fluevog had opened five privately owned and operated stores in Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, Toronto, and New York. His shoes began to appear in magazines such as Vogue, in fashion shows for Anna Sui and Betsey Johnson, and worn by celebrities such as Madonna and Lady Miss Kier.

He began his career working for Sheppard's Shoes in Vancouver. In 1970, he joined forces with Peter Fox to start their own shoe store in Vancouver's Gastown. The partnership, known as "Fox and Fluevog", lasted over ten years before the two split in 1981. In 1985, Fluevog opened his own store in Seattle.

John Fluevog (born 1948) is a Canadian shoe designer and businessperson. In 1970, he and a co-worker Peter Fox began their own shoe store in Vancouver. The shoes are described as "progressive, art deco" inspired. The company claims that the shoes are designed in Vancouver, and manufactured in Portugal, Mexico, Peru, China and Vietnam according to the company's website. The shoes often include messages engraved into the soles, the most famous being from The 7th Heaven Family, whose Angel Soles read: Resists alkali, water, acid, fatigue and Satan.