I saw a window ad for the PUMAGILITY sneakers yesterday while walking around. I can’t tell if they are actually comfortable or not, but the diamond shaped wrap of the midsole looks pretty interesting. They are supposed to expand laterally on impact in order to provide a more stable base for your foot when you plant it.
Native makes the perfect summertime slip-on. They're sort of like Crocs, but for grown-ups. They come in regular non-neon colors too. Above is the Vans/Keds-inspired Miller.
The Creo Shoe Concept focuses on user integration by allowing the wearer to become a part of the production process. The footbeds, shoelaces, outer soles, and sewing pattern are sent to the user in a leather envelope that doubles as the inner part of the shoe. I am all for anything DIY or that supports local commerce and I love that the wearer can stitch the inner shoe themselves or hand it over to a local shoemaker for tailoring. The Creo’s real value is knowing exactly where it came from.
Lovely packaging for this shoe (Model No.1) by Society 27, a collaborative design group. A two-piece plywood box reveals the shoe behind and provides a functional graphic element to the package.
Nay, these are not Air Jordans. They do not make you fly. They help you when you’re already flying. This project is a footwear design made for NASA airmen flying around in zero gravity. What would they do with specialized footwear? Why, attach to things, of course! They’d have an extra appendage to pick things up (of course, if they had big toes like your humble narrator, they’d need no such thing,) and a sassy design across the whole!
Atop the foot there is padding since quite often a floating fellow holds himself in place with the top part, hooking the whole foot under a guide pole. The artificial opposable thumb could help offer a new way of hanging on to poles, but why not have protection for both?
The most interesting thing about this project (believe it or not) is the description provided by the designer. I am totally suspicious about it, since it lists things that aren’t supposed to be happening yet – is he a space traveler? My guess is yes! Check out this excerpt from the project description:
The revolutionary design, which began with consideration of an existing ergonomic and health problem in space travelers, results in reduced foot discomfort and injury, and will improve a spacefarer’s ability to compensate for the loss of gravity. They could be manufactured with many existing fabrics and materials, and can be shipped to orbit, to a growing population of space tourists and workers.
The United Nude Lo Res is part of a new semi-automatic design method by United Nude. An object is digitally scanned into a 3D computer model and regenerated into various resolutions. The Lo Res shoe is part of an automated design revolution.
London architect Julian Hakes is to reveal the realised Mojito shoe (see the first experiments in our earlier story) in two catwalk shows for London Fashion Week
The shoe consists of a single piece wrapped around the wearer’s foot, supporting the heel and ball with no footplate in-between.
The Mojito shoe will be shown with the Spring/Summer collection by Swedish fashion designer Ann Sofie Back at Somerset House on Sunday 19 September and with London designer Ada Zanditon’s collection on Monday 20 September at ON/OFF Victoria House.
Dutch shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer has created a pair of 3D-printed shoes that can be individually made to fit perfectly.
Currently on show at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, the Rapidprototypedshoe is modelled on a computer and produced using a 3D printer that layers two different materials in microscopic structures.
Certain parts of the shoe can be removed and replaced when they wear out.
The object is on show as part of an exhibition called Mechanical Couture – Fashioning a New Order, which explores the role machines and technology can play in redefining fashion and is on show at the museum until January 2011.
Now that Anna's pregnant, she's on the DL for our soccer team. But I am still playing and always on the lookout for shoes. And I came across these insanely bright Nike5 Elastico Finale's. All I can say is you better have a lot of flare in your play to warrant a pair of shoes like this.
