High Heel Heaven

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...

Auf Schritt und Tritt – At Every Turn, Shoes in Art and Design

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....

‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week

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...

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 1 day to go!

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....

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 2 days to go!

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....

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 3 days to go!

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 X After Earth, sneakers from outerspace

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...

Schiaparelli’s Shoe Hat

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...

All good things come to an end

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...

ART & SOLE

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....


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