Intrigued by the wonderful Shoe hat by Elsa Schiaparelli we have asked Sabina Stent to give her vision on this design. Sabina is a writer with a PhD on Women Surrealists and a specialist on Elsa Schiaparelli’s surreal fashion. Italian fashion designer Schiaparelli (1890-1973) is regarded one of the most prominent figures in fashion in the 1920s through 50s, along...
This sunday, September 29th, we had the last tour thought the collection of the shoe exhibition ‘Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!’ More than 40,000 visitors came to visit and enjoy this show of more than 200 fascinating and surprising shoe creations by 150 designers from all over the world.A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied...
A spectacular selection of more than 150 fantasy art shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection. These shoes are not meant to be worn, these art shoes are pure fantasy. For the month of September and October Stuart Weitzman will be donating 100% of Art & Sole sales made in Stuart Weitzman stores and online to ovarian and breast cancer research....
An exhibition organised by the Footwear Museum of Vigevano in Italy entirely dedicated to the presentation of young talented stylists, chosen from all countries and from the most prestigious international schools of fashion and design. This is an on going project which is planned to be repeated annually.It is to coincide with MICAM. So for the press, manufacturers and buyers...
The exhibition Kobi Levi Footwear Art is, thanks to all the media attention, one of the most successful exhibitions of the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk in the last years. Therefore this wonderful exhibition of Kobi’s thirty-five sensational designs will be extended till January 5th 2014. After the conceptual design shoes by Japanese designer Kei Kagami the museum...
Joker’s Closet is the first interactive designer footwear brand where the customer can ‘create’ designer shoes online. Ashley Ebner is the founder of Joker’s Closet Inc., the first handcrafted customizable fashion footwear brand that allows customers to design their own shoes through an innovative online platform. Each season Joker’s Closet will introduce an exclusive collection along with selected colors and...
You know that feeling… you have an idea in mind and wonder if it’s makeable in 3D. Designer Duran Lanting thought so too. He realized his idea of humanity by combining 3D scans with 3D models into one towering shoe in cooperation with 3DPortal and 3DSystems Benelux.Well… shoe, this shoe is on the edge of being fashion or art. The...
The brand nat-2, based in Munich Germany, with its 7th generation creative director Sebastian Thies has risen from one of the oldest shoe-dynasties in Europe. In 2006 the family celebrated their 153 years developing and supplying shoes, materials and accessories. Every season they launch new innovative products like the world’s first 2 in 1 shoe. The Nat-2 transformer shoes and...
After an exciting couple of fashionable days, yesterday saw the final day of the Amsterdam Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014. On this very last day Dutch talent proves that there is still plenty of ground left to be broken in footwear. Ground or ankles, who’s to say…After an exciting couple of fashionable days, yesterday saw the final day of Amsterdam Fashion...
Dutch product design studio led by Tjeerd Veenhoven proudly presents its new line of vegan sandals: Palmetti. They are made of Palmleather, an organic and biodegradable material made from the shed bark of palm trees. To realize this project they started a crowdfunding campaign.Both Palmetti and Palmleather were developed by Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven and are manufactured as close to their...
