Both calendars show a wide variety of well know designers and extraordinary shoes selection from the Virtual Shoe Museum collection including students from René van den Berg Academy/NL, SASK Shoe Design St. Niklaas/Belgium. Jewelry & Fashion Department Bezalel Academy/Israel, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry/Japan, CCS Detroit/USA, Kolding school of Design/Denmark. The René van den Berg Academy and SASK students shoes...
The first-ever book about women’s sneaker culture. ‘She Kicks’ tells the stories of the women who are, and have always been, driving sneaker culture forward. Featuring power players at Nike, adidas, Converse, StockX, and more, ‘She Kicks’ features the female entrepreneurs, designers, marketers and execs calling time on the boy’s club. Interactive FeaturesAll books come to life through the S96 app. ‘She Kicks’s...
Stories of homelessness have never been told like this before. Shelter has joined forces with conceptual fashion designer Jo Cope for the Shoes Have Names art exhibition. Each shoe uses craft to translate the unique story of a previously homeless individual and to celebrate their positive steps forward with Shelters help. The Shoes Have Names tour exhibition has moved from...
The Museum at FIT presents Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic, an innovative exhibition that explores our physical, social, and psychological relationship with footwear. On show from September 1 till December 31 2022. Curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, MFIT director and chief curator and Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories, the exhibition features more than 300 of the 5.000 pairs of...
From Saturday June 4 until Sunday August 21 the exhibition ‘Made in Dolland’, the visual language of Dolley Bellefleur’ will be on show at the Gallery/Artlibrary Artzaanstad. Since 1989 Dolly Bellefleur (alter ego of cabaret artist and lyricist Ruud Douma) has been on stage and on the barricades. Dolly Bellefleur is an activist, an artist, but above all a figurehead...
Cloudfactory and The Dutch Salvation Army ReShare – inspired by Balenciaga – create a collection of truly destroyed shoes from people living on the streets. Luxury fashion house Balenciaga recently launched its Paris Sneaker collection, which featured 100 pairs of limited-edition ‘fully destroyed’ sneakers that cost $1,850. The release of these sneakers – the less-destroyed, prêt-à-porter version cost $625 –...
Especially for the 27th edition of Winternachten international literature festival (the summer edition), art project ‘A Mile in My Shoes’ by the British artist Clare Patey (Empathy Museum), comes to The Hague. In this interactive ‘shoe box’, visitors can exchange their own shoes for those of a known or unknown fellow human being. During a short walk they hear the...
Aki Choklat celebrates his shoe design career with a solo exhibition at C2 Contemporanea Gallery in Florence, Italy. There will be some pieces from his time as a student at Royal College of Art in London (Manolo Blahnik project), some new pieces partly made in Detroit & Florence. And of course included a collection of felt shoes from his nearly...
Shoeglazing brings together a ceramic body of work by 10 artists in an exhibition that blends the vague borders between gallery space and high end storefront. On display are over 60 ceramic shoes, both individual and pairs. Shoeglazing features more and less recent work by Verena Blok, Dorota Jurczak, Michael Portnoy, Koen Taselaar, Ola Vasiljeva and new work by Kim David...
René’s first solo shoe exhibition ‘A Beleza sob a Pele/Beauty beneath the skin’, consisting over 50 shoes and sculptures, will be on show at the A Calçado Museu do Calçado S. João da Madeira in Portugal. The exhibition runs from May 21 until September 25 2022 and René will be present for a guided tour on Friday May 20th and...
