Cipőfantáziák / Shoe Fantasies is the result of a cooperation between Pécs Gallery and the Virtual Shoe Museum, curated by Liza Snook and Amber Ambrose Aurèle Verstegen. These Shoe Fantasies were specially selected for the exhibition presented as part of the Prologue of the LOKART Festival in Pécs, Hungary. On show from June 9 till september 3 2023. A must...
Seven designers from around the world. Seven capsule collections in vegetable-tanned leather. ‘Craft The Leather’, the international creative competition promoted by the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, was back for its 9th edition. This collections were exhibited at Lineapelle International Leather Fair in Milan, Italy, February 19-22 2023. Seven capsule collectionsThe capsule collections are made by male and female students...
Never Enough Shoes!!! Heellusion, a must see shoe solo exhibition by Kobi Levi at the Periscope Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel, in show from February 23 till March 18 2023. Shoes. Desire. Consumption.“Embodied in the materials and aesthetics of the designed object […] is a complex system of relationships of those involved in its production and consumption […]. Many cultural...
The UC Davis Design Museum takes a bold step with the exhibition ‘From Concept to Creation: Inspired Shoe Design by Chris Francis,’ which showcases the colourful and imaginative footwear created by the Los Angeles-based shoe designer. The exhibition runs from January 23 through April 23 2023. Co-curated by Professor Susan T. Avila and Cristina Gomez, graduate student in design, the installation...
Kunsthal honors Rotterdam artist Madeleine Berkhemer. The themes of seduction and the (artist’s own) female body are central to the work of Madeleine Berkhemer (1973-2019). Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of this Rotterdam artist. Berkhemer worked across many artistic genres on the cutting edge of visual art, media, fashion, and performance. Among other things, her versatile...
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...
