ELEVATION

Footwear designers Marijke Bruggink & Marlie Witteveen, also formerly known as the creative team behind Lola Pagola, have curated the exhibition ‘Elevation’ starting 9th of June, about how our incredible shoe obsessions are gaining heady heights; tracing mesmerizing stilts, platforms, heels and wedges from historical times to today’s most contemporary and imaginative designs.


Curator Lidewij Edelkoort has selected the theme of Fetishism in Fashion for the fifth edition of the M°BA 13 (Fashion Biennale Arnhem). It will feature a series of exhibitions and events which explores and charts the passionate relationship the public has with fashion and accessories. The many wrist bands, the different types of bra strap and the laces which tighten corsets. We are literally connected to and enthralled by fashion which uses human fetishism in its design. A new world of helmets, armor and corsets; of caps, aprons and nappies; of tabards and tippets; of masks veils and wigs; and clogs, hooves and stilts. The changing idiom of tomorrow’s fashion.

The ‘high heel’ is a phenomenon on which you can projects lots of things: it gives status, is the object of desire and longing. But also the high heel has a much nicer sculptural form compared to a flat shoe and for that reason alone it’s has full accessory allure.

The exhibition is divided into six specially designed tables within six themes. In addition to historical shoes, the exhibition also celebrates the work of young excellent shoe designers.

Exhibits on show:
LOLA PAGOLA, KEI KAGAMI, IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN, ANUK YOSEBASHVILI, DENIZ TERLI, JAN JANSEN, DONNA HUANCA, design: MARIEKA RATSMA/KOSTIKA SPAHO, REY BENEDICT PADOR, ROSANNE BERGSMA, FLAT APARTMENT, A.F. VANDEVORST, VERA MEIJWAARD, WINDE RIENSTRA, SHOES OR NO SHOES, MARLOES TEN BHÖMER, BENJAMIN JOHN HALL, IVA MINKOVA, NAIM JOSEFI, CHAU HAR LEE, ATALANTA WELLER, YOUNGWON KIM, RUI LEONARDES, THEA CADABRA, ERINA OSANAI, MANAMI SATO, YU OTAKI, NORITAKA TATEHANA, PRADA, ROLANDO SEGALIN, LEANIE VAN DER VYVER, UNDERGROUND X ATALANTA WELLER, UNDERGROUND, MASUMI OMAE, MARLA MARCHANT, MATTIJS X UNITED NUDE, UNITED NUDE, IRIS VAN HERPEN X UNITED NUDE, MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, LAURA DE WEIJER, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, EELKO MOORER, RENE VAN DEN BERG, LAURENCE DACADE, JOYCE VERHAGEN, RACHEL JUI CHI CHANG/in collaboration with ARCHITECT WEI LONG XIE, Y-3 KYURA, SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTAIN, NIENKE VAN DEE, ANNE VAANDRAGER, ANNA KOBIEROWSKA, ATALANTA WELLER, SIMONA VANTH, RODERICK PIETERS, PRADA, BUFFALO, JOS VAN HEEL.

M°BA Shoe design show
CENTRAAL, Kortestraat, 16, Arnhem
June 9 till July 21, 2013
Open daily from 11:00-18:00, Thursdays until 21:00

Stelts by Eelko Moorer