Born in Iran and raised in Spain, she later moved to London and studied shoe design at Cordwainers. After graduating, Ms Kanani designed for Bruno Magli, Jimmy Choo, Rene Lezard, and Moda Italia, among others. She launched her own label in 2006, and she has quietly issued remarkable collections every season since then.
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She is based in Dallas, but all of the shoes are hand made in Italy. She uses a lot of exotic leathers that can be difficult to work with, but the level of craftsmanship is always immaculate.
Ms Ildemaro’s use of texture is one of the most exciting aspects of her designs. Textural [...]
The Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition is an initiative that supports the applied arts by showcasing and promoting the work of the recipients as well as providing some financial support. It can provide valuable exposure to innovative artists and designers. You can read more about it here.
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Javier Gasco is a shoemaker and a professor of shoemaking at the European Institute of Design in his native Madrid. His experience started in childhood, when he helped his father in the family business making cowboy boots. He later studied traditional Spanish shoemaking and rounded off his knowledge by studying footwear design [...]
In 2004 fashion designer Hugrun Arnadottir and hairstylist Magni Porsteinsson opened KronKron in Reykjavik. The store was created to showcase the work of young and upcoming designers as well as some of the more innovative established designers. By 2008 the two finally realized their ambition to create fashion themselves, and Kron by KronKron [...]
Ms Tuttle studied fashion at the FIT in New York, and her early design experience included working alongside Alexander McQueen at Givenchy. She later worked as an apparel designer for Rebecca Taylor, and it was there that her desire to design accessories gained focus. Clearly Ms Tuttle doesn’t do anything by halves, because [...]
… as well as a pair of embroidered peep toe pumps I am not sure I can live without…
You can get more details about the store here. And you can read more about United Nude in two previous articles about them on this site: Part 1 and Part 2.
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Like many shoe designers who started with architecture, Ms Giobbi’s designs often include strong sculptural elements and emphatic silhouettes…
… as well as particular attention paid to heel shapes…
I’m a fan of her more adventurous designs, but I really love the twist she gives to traditional shoe styles…
Francesca Giobbi footwear is available through her shop in [...]
Heavy Machine is Michelle Wu and Yoyo Pan. They met as fashion students in Taipei, Taiwan and decided to work together to make footwear for one of the best reasons: because they couldn’t find the kind of shoes they wanted to wear.
Their design aesthetic is a mixture of several elements: strong [...]
