Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the oldest reigning Dutch monarch, will after 33 years on the throne following her mother’s abdication in 1980, relinquish the crown and leave the monarchy to Crown-Prince Willem-Alexander, her oldest of three sons on April 30th. The ascent to the throne of Willem-Alexander means the Netherlands will have its first king in more than a...
This Monday, April 29th, Kei Kagami will give a workshop in the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk. The London-based fashion designer Kei Kagami is a master of conceptual design. This workshop, for fashion and shoe design students only, is entirely sponsored by YKK Netherlands. Therefore the museum can offer this workshop for free. YKK is the largest supplier...
Meliné Katchi is making her strides though the innovative conceptual footwear world one step at a time. Her recent collaboration with her now partner footwear consulting and customization firm Sophisticated Primitive SOPR, has spawned the development of the most unique, architecturally inspired series titled ‘Urban Armor’.This architecturally inspired creation communicates a sophisticated understanding of what ‘Urban Armor’ could essentially represent...
A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany from 28th of March till the 29th September 2013. Together with Sabine Epple, the curator of modern art of the GRASSI Museum, Liza Snook selected more than 150 exclusive shoes from the Virtual Shoe Museum, supplemented with German artists and designers who created shoes....
Never before has there been such a great interest in crafts. Contemporary designers are drawing inspiration from handmade products and traditional techniques, and there is also a marked increase in the practice of crafts in the private sphere. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be bringing crafts to life, with an exhibition, demonstrations by craftspeople and workshops that will allow visitors...
SLEM presents free SLEMinars about comfort shoes and a Slipper Battle at GDS! SLEM, the international education and innovation institute for footwear and its master class of students, presents a wealth of information and inspiration at the upcoming GDS in Düsseldorf, from March 13-15.Join us at our booth #03 in zone 3E and find ‘The battle of the SLEM slipper’.Master...
Marloes ten Bhömer’s A Measurable Factor Sets the Conditions of its Operation is an exhibition of investigative pieces, processes, tests and trials for a new footwear collection informed by engineering principles. On show at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture in London from 14 February till 6 April 2013.Marloes ten Bhömer’s aim is to completely replace...
Gallery Petra Nostheide-Eycke presents an installation by Svenja Ritter in a shoe salon at the Art Karlsruhe 2013. Svenja Ritter, former co-curator of the Afghan pavilion 51st Venice Biennale. Svenja Ritter’s specially designed installation ‘VERTIGO HEELS SHOE SALON’ demonstrates that boundaries between normality and strangeness characterize the human condition. Idealized beauty, luxury ideas as well as the images of women...
This collection show at the Micam shoe fair from 3th till 6th of March represents the ultimate design. The design collection daringly connects Finnish traditions with modernity. Aki Choklat, the designer, hasn’t made any haphazard decisions. By exploiting the secrets of felt when creating his famous collection, he has basically reinvented felt material for the use of footwear and bags....
The London-based fashion designer Kei Kagami is a master of conceptual design. His fashion designs are more likely to be described as installations, and his shoe collections (most of them highly wearable) show his great interest in architecture. Starting the 3rd of February The Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk, in collaboration with Steinbeisser, highlights Kagami’s startling work in...
