As a focus of attraction this design competition, organized by the Confederation of International Footwear Association (CIFA) will run concurrently with the ’23rd Shoes & Leather Exhibition’ from 29th till the 31th of March, in Guangzhou, China. CIFA is formed by the shoe industrial organizations from 11 countries/regions. Founded in 1970, IFC has been endeavoring to promote the development of...

During the exhibition Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight! A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany, we will highlight the different themes and introduce some of the participating designers to you.Dora Kloppenburg is a Dutch product designer specialising in shoedesign. Who finds her inspiration in constructions, architecture and the anatomy of the...

This weekend, 18th and 19th of May, the Wave Gotik Treffen will be held again in Leipzig, Germany. The Grassi Museum of Applied Arts offers a special program inspired by the current shoe exhibition ‘Starker Auftritt/Stepping into the Limelight’.Wave Gotik Treffen (Treffen means meeting), the annual world festival for ‘dark’ music and arts, hosts ± 150 bands and artists from...

During the exhibition Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight! A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany, we will highlight the different themes and introduce some of the participating designers to you.Dutch Designer John Breed creates works of art for over twenty years now. After his adventurous travels, he comes back full of...

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...