Posts Tagged ‘shoe rack’

Shoe Rack // Proenza Schouler Fall 2012

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The Proenza Schouler boys are really good at the whole craft versus machine thing. You see it come through in their shoes for fall. Repping for craft is that focal weave, sometimes two tone.  The tron like boot feels like it would fit into a present day making of some Sigourney Weaver sci-fi movie.

The sneaker like velcro straps, ankle and tongue features lend a strong athletic feel to proceedings. These are perhaps what a pair of shoes would look like if it was the result of cross mating the woven, a pair of high top trainers and footwear that would not have look out of place in a Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator update.

On the shoe rack.

Images in collage via Style.com

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Shoe Rack // LD Tuttle X Helmut Lang

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

“I strove to design footwear for the Helmut Lang collection that was powerful but understated, allowing the materials to create beautiful shapes on their own” – LD Tuttle

Tiffany Tuttle, the designer behind the LD Tuttle footwear brand, has designed footwear for runway collections by Suno, Doo.ri, VPL etc. With the above designs marking the first for Helmut Lang.
 
The narrow streamlined wedge, super slim silhouette and rubbed suede lent further fantasy to a collection (by Nicole and Michael Colovos) that took inspiration from HBO series “Game of Thrones”.
 
 

On the shoe rack.

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Shoe Rack // Chanel Fall 2012

Friday, March 9th, 2012


If these Chanel shoes were a person they would have split personality. Is it a boot? Is it T-Bar heel? It is both dependent on what side you look at.

The case of buy one, get two styles in one. Add the heelless effect that the transparent perspex heel (as inspired by the crystal and mineralogy angle of the collection) lend and the shoes seem even more surreal.

Images in collage via Style.com

On the shoe rack.

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Shoe Rack // Prada Fall 2012 Shoes

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

Images in collage via Style.com

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Shoe Rack // Rochas Spring 2012

Friday, January 27th, 2012



Images via Style.com

On the shoe rack.

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Shoe Rack // Loeffler Randall x SUNO Spring Summer 2012

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011


Loeffler Randall X SUNO

No collection is complete without the right accessories. Spring summer 2012 saw Loeffler Randall collaborate with SUNO (as helmed by Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty) for third season.

This collaboration birthed two exclusive shoe designs. There is a serenity about the shoes. The SUNO prints are paired with feminine structure, macrame and unexpected exposures.

It could be the macrame over the upper silhouette but there is an interesting shoe encased in a shoe effect.

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Shoe Rack // Unique Shoes Spring Summer 2012

Monday, October 10th, 2011

These are the lovechild of a stacked silhouette and the basic gladiator upper. The pairing of the two? Genius.

With these sandals, Unique by Topshop, continue designing competitive footwear.

On the shoe rack.

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Shoe Rack // Balenciaga Shoes Spring Summer 2012

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

Over the years, I found that nearly every Balenciaga collection boasts footwear worthy of its own show.

If the Balenciaga footwear per seasonal collection, was a collective of people, they’d be fighting for their independence from the main collection by now.

With the footwear this season, Nicolas Ghesquière stays in keeping with Balenciaga’s innovative lineage.

The most interesting shape would have to be his rounded off, square toe with angular flaps. The backless heel features cross straps, a stopper at base of the architectural heel (some of these have a surrealistic feeling cut-out in heel) and a ThunderCats cartoon like animal print upper (Tiger, Cheetah, Python etc).

This footwear will no doubt influence the shape of shoes to come. Ghesquière’s strength when it comes to shoes, is his ability to convince us to experiment with future forward forms. He does this particularly well and perhaps this why he is a perfect fit for a fashion house that has become synonymous with innovation and the conceptual.

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