SHOEFACTORY at Meesterlijk

From Friday November 29th till December Sunday 1st 2013 the fourth edition of Meesterlijk will take place in Amsterdam at the Westergasfabriek. During Meesterlijk the Machine house will be transformed into an actual SHOEFACTORY. The Dutch Shoe Academy will demonstrate at Meesterlijk how a shoe is created: from concept, sketch, to the final end product. Students will be operating the...

Auf Schritt und Tritt – At Every Turn, Shoes in Art and Design

After the exhibition Starker Auftritt! Experimental Shoe design with the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany (where all visitor records were broken since the re-opening, we are very happy to announce the (adjusted and extended) sequel to this shoe exhibition at Museum Villa Rot in Ulm in South Germany. Also co-curated Liza Snook of the Virtual Shoe Museum....

‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week

This week at the Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world. After the great success of last year’s first edition, even more schools have decided to participate. Among the newcomers are big names such...

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 1 day to go!

This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 2 days to go!

This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....

Countdown to ‘Watch our Steps’ at the Dutch Design Week, 3 days to go!

This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 19-27 October in Eindhoven, where SLEM will present ‘Watch our Steps #2’: the next generation of shoe designers. SLEM is proud to present ‘Watch our Steps #2’, the second edition of its spectacular annual exhibition of the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world....

All good things come to an end

This sunday, September 29th, we had the last tour thought the collection of the shoe exhibition ‘Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!’ More than 40,000 visitors came to visit and enjoy this show of more than 200 fascinating and surprising shoe creations by 150 designers from all over the world.A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied...

Visitors and Natives, the shoes and talents of tomorrow

An exhibition organised by the Footwear Museum of Vigevano in Italy entirely dedicated to the presentation of young talented stylists, chosen from all countries and from the most prestigious international schools of fashion and design. This is an on going project which is planned to be repeated annually.It is to coincide with MICAM. So for the press, manufacturers and buyers...

Kobi Levi Footwear Art extended till January 5th 2014

The exhibition Kobi Levi Footwear Art is, thanks to all the media attention, one of the most successful exhibitions of the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk in the last years. Therefore this wonderful exhibition of Kobi’s thirty-five sensational designs will be extended till January 5th 2014. After the conceptual design shoes by Japanese designer Kei Kagami the museum...

3Dportal X Above Humanity

You know that feeling… you have an idea in mind and wonder if it’s makeable in 3D. Designer Duran Lanting thought so too. He realized his idea of ​​humanity by combining 3D scans with 3D models into one towering shoe in cooperation with 3DPortal and 3DSystems Benelux.Well… shoe, this shoe is on the edge of being fashion or art. The...


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