Mostly this website is about extreme shoes in design and art. But sometimes somebody brings me a shoe with a special story. This February my friend Ap Verheggen brought me a very special birthday gift. When he went to the Sultanate of Oman for his Sunglacier art and science project, he stayed at Bader Al Badri’s Sharqiya Sands Bedouincamp camp....
TeNeues published a new book called ‘It’s All About Shoes’ by British photographer Suzanne Middlemass. A variety of exciting and inspiring street style images with a ‘sole’ focus on shoes! A must have for or students of footwear fashion, cultural anthropology, fans and admirers of innovative street style fashion, or anyone looking for creative personal style inspiration. About the BookShoes...
An exhibition of shoes in Art and Design at Schloss Lichtenwalde, near Chemniz in Germany. On show from May 25 2017 extended till February 25 2018. Curated by Liza Snook, passionate shoe collector and founder of the Virtual Shoe Museum and Brigitte Woischnik, founder of the FotoFactory, an agency for photographers, in Munich. The shoes are accompanied by a series...
2017 has been a busy and very successful year. With judging at design schools in The Netherlands and Belgium, working on a new set of Workman Publishers New York shoe calendars and 4 shoe exhibitions in Schloss Lichtenwalde in Germany, Műcsarnok Budapest in Hungary, College for Creative Studies Detroit in USA and Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures at Rokin75 in Amsterdam...
Shoetopia! The first exhibition of its kind in North America to gather contemporary footwear, art, video and related designs into one space, is curated by Liza Snook, founder of the Virtual Shoe Museum and Aki Choklat, Chair of Fashion Accessories Design at CCS. The exhibition looks at shoe design through thelens of seven themes: Metropolis, Ritual, Utopia, Feast, Nocturnal, Techno...
Designers and artists from all over the world honour the iconic shoe designer Jan Jansen with unique works of art that have been designed and made specially for the Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures project. Every work of art is inspired by shoes in the private collection of Jan & Tonny Jansen. The artists were given carte blanche to create new...
For this exhibition, we bring a little shoe magic to Budapest. ‘I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.’ Liza Snook and Joyce de Gruiter have selected artists and designers from various countries with all their own view on shoes. On show at the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest from 15 September till 22 October...
Creative Sole, Japanese Sneaker Culture is a book by Manami Okazaki that looks at Japan’s prolific presence in sneaker culture globally. Creative, covetable and cool, Japanese sneakers are some of the most highly sought after in the world today, with an incredible amount of designers, collaborators, artists and makers, all infusing their creative energy into this multi-billion dollar industry. This...
To create a sneaker made from real stone was the common idea of the two German brands Roxxlyn® und nat-2™, which was born at a Paris Tradeshow. Nat-2™ is known for its groundbreaking innovations in the field of sneakers and footwear, the Berlin based company Roxxlyn® is acknowlegded for ist exclusive accessories made from stone. Now both brands have joined...
On Saturday, June 17th, the Fashion and Shoe Designing Academy of Fine Arts Department of Sint-Niklaas presents it’s annual sensational and spectacular fashion show for the 20th time and the shoe show for the sixth time. For this presentation the Techniekhuis will be transformed into a show location.The fashion and shoe designs of part-time education in Sint-Niklaas, Fashion Design department:...
