29th of April: Workshop Kei Kagami in the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum

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...

Urban Armour by shoe designer Meliné Katchi

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...

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!

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....

Hand Made Long Live Crafts in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam

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...

‘No country for old women!’

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...

A Measurable Factor Sets the Conditions of its Operation by Marloes ten Bhömer

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...

VERTIGO HEELS SHOE SALON by Svenja Ritter at Art Karlsruhe

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...

Aki Choklat for Lahtiset at MICAM, International footwear fair in Milan, Italy

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....

Kei Kagami – A Retrospective

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...

‘To Die For’ an art homage to fashion

The official art exhibition of the Berlin Fashion Week Showroom Days presents the artists and creators of dresses made of meat, fish (Hans Peter Adamski) and hooves (Iris Schieferstein) at Epicentro art, Berlin-Mitte. In collaboration with the Fashion Week Showroom Days, Epicentro art open their new exhibition space in Berlin Mitte with the exhibition ‘To Die For’. Iris Schieferstein and...


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