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...

Marloes ten Bhömer’s A Measurable Factor Sets the Conditions of its Operation is an exhibition of investigative pieces, processes, tests and trials for a new footwear collection informed by engineering principles. On show at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture in London from 14 February till 6 April 2013.Marloes ten Bhömer’s aim is to completely replace...

Gallery Petra Nostheide-Eycke presents an installation by Svenja Ritter in a shoe salon at the Art Karlsruhe 2013. Svenja Ritter, former co-curator of the Afghan pavilion 51st Venice Biennale. Svenja Ritter’s specially designed installation ‘VERTIGO HEELS SHOE SALON’ demonstrates that boundaries between normality and strangeness characterize the human condition. Idealized beauty, luxury ideas as well as the images of women...

The London-based fashion designer Kei Kagami is a master of conceptual design. His fashion designs are more likely to be described as installations, and his shoe collections (most of them highly wearable) show his great interest in architecture. Starting the 3rd of February The Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk, in collaboration with Steinbeisser, highlights Kagami’s startling work in...

The official art exhibition of the Berlin Fashion Week Showroom Days presents the artists and creators of dresses made of meat, fish (Hans Peter Adamski) and hooves (Iris Schieferstein) at Epicentro art, Berlin-Mitte. In collaboration with the Fashion Week Showroom Days, Epicentro art open their new exhibition space in Berlin Mitte with the exhibition ‘To Die For’. Iris Schieferstein and...

We hope to present lots of new shoes and designers in 2013. There will be other places this year this where you can find shoes from this collection: in the 365 Days of Shoes 2013 Wall Calendar by Workman Publishers and in the international shoe exhibition ‘Stepping into the Limelight! Experimental Shoe Design’ in the GRASSI Museum Leipzig, Germany.The 365...

Two exhibitions on Denim, the everlasting blue fabric, both include shoes and can be found in Utrecht, the Netherlands. At the Centraal Museum, an exhibition called ‘350 years of Blue Jeans’ runs from November 24th till March 2013. Around the same time (ending January 6th) the DepARTmentSTORE by Gumbs will show and sell works by artists and designers in an...

The Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum presents the shoe designs by Belgium designer Anne Poesen in a mini exhibition from 15th of November till 17th of February 2013. Her passion for footwear led Anne Posen to design her first shoe while studying civil engineering and architecture at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. After a short course of footwear...

Dutch Design Week 20-28 October in Eindhoven will premiere the spectacular exhibition ‘Watch our Steps’ organized by SLEM, a new education and innovation centre for footwear.The exhibition will feature the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world, from Hiko Mizuno and Bunka College in Tokyo, to Polimoda in Florence and London College of Fashion to ArteZ in Arnhem...

This week we will be counting down to the start of Dutch Design Week 20-28 October in Eindhoven, which will premiere the spectacular exhibition ‘Watch our Steps’ organized by SLEM, a new education and innovation centre for footwear.The exhibition will feature the best footwear graduation works from academies around the world, from Hiko Mizuno and Bunka College in Tokyo, to...