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....

Intrigued by the wonderful Shoe hat by Elsa Schiaparelli we have asked Sabina Stent to give her vision on this design. Sabina is a writer with a PhD on Women Surrealists and a specialist on Elsa Schiaparelli’s surreal fashion. Italian fashion designer Schiaparelli (1890-1973) is regarded one of the most prominent figures in fashion in the 1920s through 50s, along...

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...

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...

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...

During the exhibition Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight! A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany, we will highlight the different themes and introduce some of the participating designers to you.Dutch Designer John Breed creates works of art for over twenty years now. After his adventurous travels, he comes back full of...

This Monday, April 29th, Kei Kagami will give a workshop in the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk. The London-based fashion designer Kei Kagami is a master of conceptual design. This workshop, for fashion and shoe design students only, is entirely sponsored by YKK Netherlands. Therefore the museum can offer this workshop for free. YKK is the largest supplier...

A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany from 28th of March till the 29th September 2013. Together with Sabine Epple, the curator of modern art of the GRASSI Museum, Liza Snook selected more than 150 exclusive shoes from the Virtual Shoe Museum, supplemented with German artists and designers who created shoes....

Never before has there been such a great interest in crafts. Contemporary designers are drawing inspiration from handmade products and traditional techniques, and there is also a marked increase in the practice of crafts in the private sphere. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be bringing crafts to life, with an exhibition, demonstrations by craftspeople and workshops that will allow visitors...

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...