2021 Dutch Design Week – Shoes for self-confident dreamers

Yulia Zelenina (designer and shoemaker), owner of the brand ‘Luck in Look’ is designer comfortable tailor-made shoes from exclusive upcycling materials. Every pair of shoes is unique. The shoes are made in The Netherlands. Zelenina: ‘As a designer, I spent time looking for a solution on how to combine design, comfort & upcycling materials. Thus, I create shoes for women...

Genderless heels collection launch

Outrageous shoes in inclusive sizes! For a decade, Kira Goodey has built an international reputation for creating towering footwear.  Her shoes have elevated style icons including Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Kylie Jenner, Doja Cat and Nikita Dragun. She believes incredible shoes should be available to everyone – whatever their size, shape or gender. Now, after two years of...

L’EDGE shoes for Legendary Men

L’EDGE is a Belgium based footwear label for men, established in 2020 by shoe designers Marlou Browaeys, Dempsey Pauwels and Lise De Smet. L’EDGE shoes redefine the age old boring black and brown dress shoe – by adding a modern twist, new technologies, innovative lines and a splash of color. Men want to spice up their look! Our brand embodies...

nat-2™ presents vegan sneakers made from real recycled bubble wrap

The vegan Sleek Low style is made from real recycled bubble wrap, which is not only unique in its look for every pair, but also makes the upper waterproof. The genderless sneakers are fairly produced by hand in Italy, in colab with Remeant. This is the first time this real recycled bubble wrap material is used for shoes. The lining...

Walking on Water – May 21 & 22

Walking on Water is the performance and installation project of the English fashion designer Jo Cope, created in collaboration with the Piedàterre Venetia brand, specialist in fur-lane, the original velvet shoes that from Venice have spread all over the world. Part of the Venice Design Biennial, 20 May 2021 – 27 Jun 2021. On May 21 & 22, the terrace...

On the last of Jan Jansen – 60 years & Dutch Design

The exhibition ‘On the Last of Jan Jansen – 60 Years of Shoes and Dutch Design in Museum JAN in Amstelveen in the Netherlands, shows six decades of iconic work by shoe designer Jan Jansen together with the work of Dutch designers. For more than 60 years, Jan Jansen has been a master of colorful, extravagant and groundbreaking shoe design....

Workshop Eniko Toth Kern

Come and make your own designed accessory for yourself or as a gift with my help. The traces of your heart and hands will be in it. Unique sandals, slippers, bracelets or in the form of an exciting harness. I take care of the atmosphere, tools and ingredients! Date: February 27 2021Time: 13:00 – 17:30Workshop location: 2011 Budakalász, Csalogány utca...

365 Days of Shoes Workman calendars 2021

Both calendars show a wide variety of well know designers and a extraordinary shoes selection from the Virtual Shoe Museum collection including students from CCS Detroit/USA, Kolding school of design/Denmark, Tomas Bata University Zlín/Czech Republic, Zapateria Hub Metro Manila/Philippines and SASK Shoe Design St. Niklaas/Belgium. The SASK shoes are all photographed by Charlotte Visser from The Hague, NL. 365 Days...

Worn. Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear

Outstanding book by dr. Ellen Samson, an artist and material culture researcher who uses practice-based research to explored the relationships between bodily experience, memory and clothing, both in museums and archives, and in everyday life. By using film, photography, performance work and writing she address the manner in which material objects can become records of lived experience and how the...

Minna Parikka’s career as an artist is coming to an end

The Finnish shoe company will close its business in December 2020 after 15 years. The Aleksanterinkatu store closed in July and operations have since continued successfully in global online shopping. The last day to buy shoes from the online store will be December 20th. The news of the closure may come as a surprise to many, as the brand is...


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