Happiness And Silhouettes

Let's enjoy some shoe art, shall we? Again I can't help but fall in love with bizarre and eye-catching architectural design. These gorgeous shoes-slash-sculptures are by Tea Petrovic, a graduated student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.

Each model is an experiment with the high heel, because they determine the whole form of a shoe. These shoes are primarily an art object and their function is secondary. The focus is on the form, their only decorative element. Design is based on the exploration of new high heel shapes, resulting in numerous variations of their basic form.

The heel shapes are created by multiplying, intercepting and rotating 2D surfaces in order to achieve a 3D figure. To underline their sculptural form, the shoes are kept white.

Pictures and quotes from Dezeen.

Tessa Two

After writing this post, I tried to find out a bit more about the designer of that gorgeous pair of grey wedges. I haven't been able to dig up much more than a lot of pictures from the blog of the designer, Tessa Edwards, and the fact that she's a 2009 Central Saint Martin BA Graduate. So not only does she create shoes, but gorgeous clothes and jewelry as well.

Apart from the shoes, I'm most impressed by the amazing headpiece that looks like giant half-circle earrings, featured in two of the images below. I also love the colour scheme she works with, the metal rings built into the garnments and the materials used. Can't wait to see more from Edwards in the future!

Tribute to Fashion

Alberta Feretti / Etro / Moschino / Missoni

While I'm usually a Coke Zero girl, I'd buy these in a heartbeat if I could. No chance of that, though, as they were auctioned off during a fund raising campaign in Milan in support of earthquake victims. I love the work that was put into the designs representing eight different fashion houses, and wish they were available in stores.

Click here to see the rest, including Fendi and Marni.

I Do Want One of Those!

Today I'm bringing out my inner child and posting Nifty Things I Found online. We all need a break from shoes and fashion some times, right?

First out:

If I were to start a collection of useless stuff, I think I'd get a salt & pepper shaker/mill collection. There are so many cool designs out there, like these, or perhaps I'm just very easily impressed when it comes to kitchen gadgets. Yeah, that's probably it...

Rubik's cubes? Ok, that's even cooler!

Clever advertising for a restaurant in Switzerland. The text on the fork says: Very, very fresh vegetarian food. Relevant and innovative; just the way I like it.

Back to nifty kitchen gadgets; the lego biscuit roller! Biscuits shaped as pieces of lego is sort of like ice cubes shaped as penguins; extremely cool, but not very useful. But the idea of using food colouring together with this roller makes my buy this!-muscle twitch.

I'll finish this post with something that's actually fashion related. I love the whole Hermès campaign this season, and the accessory ad is no exception. A brilliant way of showcasing the famous Hermes silk scarves!

Construction for the Feet

I've started school again this week, and have not been able to devote any time at all to the blog, but today I came across some pieces of really interesting and artistic shoes I wanted to post. I don't know whether these are intended for daily wear or pieces of art, but they're wonderful eye candy anyway.

Have a look at Imelda or Acriacao for more pictures and a video interview with designer Chau Har Lee.