‘Heaven or Hell?’

Jólan van der Wiel for Iris van Herpen

‘Heaven or Hell?’
28 January 2018 - 2 September 2018

Heaven or Hell? is an exhibition on extraordinary shoe design at at Cube Design Museum in Kerkrade (The Netherlands)!
The exhibition is a co-production with Italy’s IMF Foundation and can be visited in the Cube design museum from 28 January to 2 September 2018.

 95% of Dutch women feel more confident when wearing a pair of beautiful shoes. However, an average of 23 pairs of shoes in the closet suggest that shoes also fulfil other desires.
Showcasing 100 pairs of remarkable footwear, the new ‘Heaven or Hell?’ exhibition at the Cube design museum highlights the needs shoes can fulfil and how shoe designers play in on this. Current, iconic specimens, shoes from the recent past, and new innovations for future shoes, ‘Heaven or Hell?’ has them all. Stilettos, ballerinas, wedges, sneakers, flip flops: are they heavenly or hell?

Issey Miyake x United Nude

Issey Miyake and United Nude have joined forces to create a collection of shoes.
Presented during Paris Fashion Week spring/summer 2017, the project elaborates on Issey Miyake’s concept of ‘ten sen men’ (point, line and surface), and continues United Nude’s approach to shoe design as architecture, using cutting-edge materials and techniques.
Both ‘rock’ and ‘wrap’ shoes put the wearer at the forefront of the design process, creating footwear that is practical and playful. The ‘rock’ shoes are based on the concept of ‘structure’ and are characterized by their dynamic, geometric heels that seem to be hewn from stone. Fusing functionality — based on structural dynamics — and a colorful playfulness, the collection is available in six hues — white, black, pink, beige, yellow and green.

The ‘wrap’ shoes have been designed to envelop the foot in a single sheet of leather. the model has an elastic band that improves the fit, making it a simple and easy style to wear. ‘wrap’ is available in three colors — white, black, and silver — and in both flats and low heels.

http://www.isseymiyake.com/en/
https://www.unitednude.com

Damn Pretty Dutch Shoes

Peter Popps

Damn Pretty Dutch Shoes is a new new platform during the Dutch Design Week 2015. The exhibition shows experimental approach to shoe design and innovative shapes.
Curated by Liza Snook (VirtualShoeMuseum) and Chris van den Elzen, the exhibition is aims to support the Dutch shoe design talent. In past years there has been a new wave of promising shoe designers in the Netherlands.

The exhibition took place at the location ’Piet Hein Eek’.

Designers: Tomasenwies, Peterson + Stoop, Peter Popps, Nienke van Dee, Chrissie Houtkooper, Janine van den Bosch, Mandy Roos, Alexander Khorikian, Chris van den Elzen, Iris van Herpen x United Nude, Ilja Visser, Dora Kloppenburg, Amber Ambrose Aurèle, René van den Berg, Ellis Droog

ELEVATION Shoe Exhibition at MoBA 13

Benjamin John Hall

ELEVATION is one of the exhibitions during at MoBA 13 curated by footwear designers Marijke Bruggink & Marlie Witteveen (Lola Pagola brand).
This shoe exhibition focused on our fashion-fueled obsession with gaining height.
Tracing back to the mesmerizing stilts, platforms, heels and wedges of historical times and looking to the future with today’s most contemporary, imaginative and innovative designs, ELEVATION scales the spectrum of this phenomenon.

http://moba.nu

Check out some amazing shoe design!

FEE ConceptStore Sittard

Sittard is a small town in Limburg, the south of Netherlands and it is not really known as a place for great shopping except there are two hotspots to be found at Putstraat; Labels store and FEE Conceptstore.

At FEE ConceptStore you can find established labels such as Religion, Libertine-Libertine, young fashion designers like Femke Agema and Ingo Binder, vintage, design, books, magazines, furniture, accessories and jewellery.



And if you can't make it to Sittard, there is also a webshop: http://www.feeshop.nl

http://www.fee-conceptstore.nl/

winterSALON at De Waag

De Waag Society
http://www.waag.org/

Annette Duburg/Rixt van der Tol


Hester Vlamings
http://www.hestervlamings.com/


Pauline van Dongen
http://www.paulinevandongen.nl/




Antoine Peters
http://www.antoinepeters.com/


United Nude
http://www.unitednude.com/