Birds Mule Shoes

Aliane Matei

Overlaid & moulded black full grain sheep leather, 2019.

These shoes echo the human’s most inner desire to fly, stepping from earth to air, matter to spirit.

‘The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who… looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space… on the infinite highway of the air.’― Wilbur Wright

Material: constructed out of a reused leather jacket.
Heel height: 12cm

© Aliane Matei


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