A shoe can be… reveals their shoe sculpture Heliotrope. It’s inspiration comes from a plant that exhibits heliotropism. A shoe can be… has chosen to present their sculptures by using moving image instead of showing just the final product. This film highlights their possibilities and skills and encourages to create new products in close co-operation. Heliotrope shows leaves and stem...

Today A shoe can be… reveals their shoe sculpture Coral. It’s inspiration comes from the deep ocean reefs. A shoe can be… has chosen to present their sculptures by using moving image instead of showing just the final product. This film highlights their possibilities and skills and encourages to create new products in close co-operation. Coral is decorated with 5000...

In collaboration with shoe designer Masaya Kushino, Sputniko! is currently developing the work ‘Healing Fukushima (Nanohana Heels)’, a pair of shoes that plant rapeseeds (Nanohana) into soil through mechanical high-heels. Using the heels, rapeseeds are automatically planted as the user walks. The piece is currently in its work-in-progress phase, and is exhibited from March 11th to April 16th, 2012 at...

The opening for the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum was held at December 5th at MoMA New York by actrice Anne Hathaway. Valentino Garavani, legendary fashion designer, has defined a unique world of couture for almost half a century. Now his achievement takes radical new form, in keeping with the creative traditions of the house: The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum.The Valentino...

A piano concert, performance and an installation with spectacular high heels by Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Christian Louboutin and shoe designer Hester Vlamings. From a chocolate shoes to a whirlwind of two-dimensional ladies’ heels.Pianist and artist Tomoko Mukaiyama intelligently weaves together various and very different compositions like Bach, Stockhausen and Ligeti and places them in a new musical and visual context....