Today A shoe can be… reveals their shoe sculpture Coral. It’s inspiration comes from the deep ocean reefs. A shoe can be… has chosen to present their sculptures by using moving image instead of showing just the final product. This film highlights their possibilities and skills and encourages to create new products in close co-operation. Coral is decorated with 5000...
From Friday November 29th till December Sunday 1st 2013 the fourth edition of Meesterlijk will take place in Amsterdam at the Westergasfabriek. During Meesterlijk the Machine house will be transformed into an actual SHOEFACTORY. The Dutch Shoe Academy will demonstrate at Meesterlijk how a shoe is created: from concept, sketch, to the final end product. Students will be operating the...
This autumn a new and one of a kind online platform was launched, called Shoemaking Courses Online. This is an exclusive source and website that offers its members shoemaking lessons online. The courses are hosted by Sveta Kletina, footwear and accessories designer with a passion to create and share her knowledge. Sveta Kletina ‘Making Shoes’ blog, where she teaches and...
A new book ‘High Heel Heaven, the glamour and seduction of fabulous shoes’ by Tracy Martin. Martin is a collectables, fashion and antiques expert in the UK. Beginning with the history of shoes, Tracey Martin explores the origins of the high heel, explaining how it has evolved over the decades to become one of the most desirable of all female...
After the exhibition Starker Auftritt! Experimental Shoe design with the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany (where all visitor records were broken since the re-opening, we are very happy to announce the (adjusted and extended) sequel to this shoe exhibition at Museum Villa Rot in Ulm in South Germany. Also co-curated Liza Snook of the Virtual Shoe Museum....
This week at the Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world. After the great success of last year’s first edition, even more schools have decided to participate. Among the newcomers are big names such...
This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....
This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....
This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....
Nat-2, the high end sneaker brand from Munich in Germany, is teaming with Jaden & Will Smith’s summer blockbuster After Earth for a very limited sneaker collection, which is futuristic as the world brought to us in the film.Paying tribute to the DVD release of the visually spectacular film, After Earth, four matching versions of the nat-2 classic Cube are being launched in an exclusive...
