Inspired by the ‘Ice Desert’ of the South Pole, shoe designer Kobi Levi created the ‘Antarctica’ collection, featuring four styles. There are beautiful creatures living on the white snow fields and in the freezing cold water. The four designs have each a different ‘Antarctic resident’ in mind: ‘suited’ penguins, impressive orcas, giant whales and adorable seals. The styles follow the...
The Finnish Institute in London is delighted to host the FINSK’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, from 12 November to 15 December 2015, at the Institute in King’s Cross. FINSK will showcase its designs on purpose-built installations by Royal College of Art architecture graduates Henry Beech Mole and James Smith from Smith & Beech Mole.FINSK is the London based label of Finnish...
From Friday November 27th till Sunday 29th Meesterlijk will take place in Amsterdam at the Westergasfabriek. During this edition of Meesterlijk you will find various shoe designers, artists and makers. They will share their passion for shoes and show their crafts of shoemaking and leatherwork. DUTCH SHOE ACADEMYThe centre of expertise for leather and shoe design in the Netherlands. The...
This autumn Dutch shoes designers Swart & Rademaker introduce there new brand ‘LEV’01. Liesel Swart and Dorien Rademaker know each other from the Dutch Shoe Academy. Liesel is a teacher shoe techniques and design and Dorien is a graduate shoemaker. Together they have teamed up to follow their passion and realize their dream: their own label: LEV’01.They created a robust...
Elegnano offers elegant, exclusive women’s shoes of the highest quality for women that are fashionable and graceful, but also know what they want in life. Elegnano lives by the motto: float like butterfly, sting like a bee.Walking through life effortless and elegant, but strong and sharp at the same time. Elegnano wants every woman to move gracefully through life –...
Nat-2 launches a spectacular capsule collection of LED Sneakers including 3 different LED outsoles for women, men and kids. The three soles all together have about 20 different functions from colour-changing to flashing and going round.The entire outsole changes with a simple push on a hidden button while wearing the shoes. Every pair can simly be quickly re-loaded many times...
In order to make wearing high heeled shoes more comfortable and easy, HEELBOPPS were developed by Katharina Hermes. Those functional, yet sophisticated and feminine add-on-heels can be put onto the shoes heels, fitting on various shapes and easy to pull off again with a slight twist. They will look just like a slightly enlarged classic D-shaped heel and as if...
Shoe art, signed & numbered Helena is back. After an overwhelming response on various boots featured in international exhibitions, Helena decided to make her shoe art available to shoe lovers. This fall she will be launching ‘Gloria Flamenca’, the first in a series of exclusive, signed and numbered boots which all have been in expositions but never produced before. These...
The U-Lace story is actually your story. You are the artist who will take our laces and customize sneakers in way that will turn heads, collect compliments and inspire other to create sneaker masterpieces of their own. It’s your world, so color it your way!About YouFrom its inception, U-Lace has been about You – the end user, the consumer. That’s...
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...
