Internationally-acclaimed footwear designers Aki Choklat and Julia Lundsten will join forces for a retrospective exhibition showcasing their works as two of Finland’s leading designers. At the 12 Star Gallery from 16 April – 2 May 2014.The 12 Star Gallery shows work which celebrates the creative and cultural diversity that is the hallmark of the European Union. The exhibition examines the...
Fabric For Fashion: The Complete Guide: Natural and man-made fibres is the only book specifically for fashion ánd shoe designers, to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics. A must have book for designers and textile lovers!Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand...
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....
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...
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....
Nat-2, the high end sneaker brand from Munich in Germany, is teaming with Jaden & Will Smith’s summer blockbuster After Earth for a very limited sneaker collection, which is futuristic as the world brought to us in the film.Paying tribute to the DVD release of the visually spectacular film, After Earth, four matching versions of the nat-2 classic Cube are being launched in an exclusive...
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...
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...
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...
After an exciting couple of fashionable days, yesterday saw the final day of the Amsterdam Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014. On this very last day Dutch talent proves that there is still plenty of ground left to be broken in footwear. Ground or ankles, who’s to say…After an exciting couple of fashionable days, yesterday saw the final day of Amsterdam Fashion...
