From stilettoes to brogues, satin to snakeskin, succumb to the overwhelmingly seductive quality of master shoemaking. Shoes have always possessed a remarkable power to provoke emotional, even obsessive connection but today a new generation of creative talent is developing innovative and beruatiful design concepts, making these exciting times for footwear aficionados. Olivier Dupon invites you to succumb to the overwhelmingly...
The Finnish Institute in London is delighted to host the FINSK’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, from 12 November to 15 December 2015, at the Institute in King’s Cross. FINSK will showcase its designs on purpose-built installations by Royal College of Art architecture graduates Henry Beech Mole and James Smith from Smith & Beech Mole.FINSK is the London based label of Finnish...
From Friday November 27th till Sunday 29th Meesterlijk will take place in Amsterdam at the Westergasfabriek. During this edition of Meesterlijk you will find various shoe designers, artists and makers. They will share their passion for shoes and show their crafts of shoemaking and leatherwork. DUTCH SHOE ACADEMYThe centre of expertise for leather and shoe design in the Netherlands. The...
During the Shoe Crush month, during November 2015, an artistic exhibition from unique and innovative shoes curated by the Virtual Shoe Museum in cooperation with CELS Events are on display at the BurJuman Mall in Dubai.The exhibition hosts sixty pairs of unique and bizarre shoes that were inspired by nature, iconic architecture, fine art and fashion trends. These pieces of...
This autumn Dutch shoes designers Swart & Rademaker introduce there new brand ‘LEV’01. Liesel Swart and Dorien Rademaker know each other from the Dutch Shoe Academy. Liesel is a teacher shoe techniques and design and Dorien is a graduate shoemaker. Together they have teamed up to follow their passion and realize their dream: their own label: LEV’01.They created a robust...
We invite you to visit our exhibition Damn Pretty Dutch Shoes during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. From 17 till 25 October, 2015 at the location of Piet Hein Eek in Eindhoven. Unusual materials. Unexpected forms. Craft combined with high tech and new techniques. 15 top designers present a diverse and inspiring collection of experimental shoes. Designers Amber Ambrose...
Celebrating urbanity in a new and different way. Sneaker brand nat-2 and perfume producer Atelier PMP belong to the most creative companies in Germany and wererewarded last year by the German government for their creativity: both companies are ‘Kreativ- und Kulturpiloten’, yes it means creative culture pilots… And this was the starting point for the idea to team up and...
Allow me to present you a banquet full of aesthetic flavors and tastes. An artistic feast in footwear presented by Chu-Ting Lee from Royal College of Art Womenswear Footwear. Tuesday 15 september at 10.30 at the Gallery Mess Bar, Saatchi Gallery London, UK.Dates:Tuesday 15 september at 10.30- 18.00Wednesday 16 september at 10.30- 18.00Thursday 17 september at 10.30- 18.00 Location: Gallery...
This exhibition tells the story of inspirational and groundbreaking fashion shoes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It shines a light on those fashion and shoe designers who left their footprint on the world of shoes by means of the exquisite and innovative designs they created. Based on the long-term loan to MoMu from shoe collectors Geert Bruloot and Eddy...
An exhibition celebrating the visionary shoe designer Beth Levine (1914-2006) runs at the Long Island Museum in New York, from August 21h till January 4, 2016. This exhibition includes a wide array of iconic footwear, photographs, paintings, memorabilia, illustrations, accessories, film footage and artifacts from public and private collections relating to Levine’s early life on a farm in Long Island...
