I am a big fan of Japanese fashion and Japanese designers.It's fun discovering new and unknown to the general public designers. They are all united to me in the general name of "Japanese designers' traits such as a simple but appears as complicated at first glance, cutting, layering, and monochrome, clear conceptual line collections. We are all familiar with the works of Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Rei Kawakubo (brand Comme des Garçons) but know little or almost do not know (at least I have until recently), new names, so I want to bring to your attention. Watch and enjoy, as I do! Yasutoshi Ezumi, Taro Horiuchi and Shida Tatsuya on my pinterest board
Well here I finally sat down to try and make THE COLLECTION, my long time conceived collection, that I'm caring with me for the past 8 years, It actually feels like a really long pregnancy and your bally is getting bigger, but doctor tells you to wait. "The baby just on his 350 week!!! It all started with my final student project. I designed a shoe sole that integrates into the shoe itself, in other words, the leather sole is the shoe. The project :
Nevertheless, I continue to develop this theme and I want to achieve or not achieve the limits of the features and functions of leather soles in shoes. I present to you, my dear readers, the first sample from the collection of so-called "skeleton of a shoe" (I named it), which inspired by the work of one of my favorite architects, talented and unique Santiago Calatrava. http://www.calatrava.com/
You are the first to see the beginning of my collection
which I will upload very soon to www.kickstarter.com and will try to get me some funding for this project, so it is very important for me to know what you think, what you understand, just give me your thoughts on a subject I'll be really grateful.
I don't like the shoe bows, flowers and other decorative items that are simply glued to a classic shoe, boots or sandals, except kitschy and totally brave design, which I love. For example (photo). http://www.anastasiaradevich.com/site/index-1.html #
Because it is something quiet and unpretentious, and therefore acceptable, and "friendly" to all, that is not a reason for me to like it. Particularly fashion in recent years has vintage style everywhere, it lined up absolutely all styles of clothing, pretending to be vintage. This is why, when I hear it I immediately have negative attitude biased on everything around me. Okay, I will not talk about it now, But will come back to this topic, I promise.
To make it short, after several unsuccessful attempts to make a decorative element using the pattern cutting technique, and not just gluing the decorative part, that's what I did. Those are photos of the process, creating a two-layer shoe design.
Today, I reminisce a time when I was in Italy. I lived in a small village called San Mauro Pascoli , the core of Italian shoe brands, such as Pollini, Vicini, Casadei, Sergio Rossi. Unfortunately, in addition to these Pattractions and beautiful sights, this town couldn't offer anything else. Giuseppe Zanotti himself, The big chief of shoe styles and global commercial success gave us, greenhorn students, lectures. I rented a room at some designer villa, right in front Sergio Rossi and Pollini family houses. When meeting new people was silly to ask what they do, because 90% of the local population were cooked in the shoe business. In short, wherever you look, everywhere, there were the smell of glue, and people, so simple and uncomplicated. This was, of course, a wonderful time, but if I was there again, I would have done things differently. I would, for example, in addition to tuition and indispensable practice at the plant would go as an apprentice to some old shoemaker. To one of those who all their lives making shoes, like they used to make them, all handmade from beginning to the end.
I always love learning something new, and even now, after many years, I continue to accumulate knowledge in the field of hand-made shoes and thankful for any information. Lately I find a lot of good and quality information in the video tutorials by Marcell Mrsan, in which, as always, I came across recently on the net. I like his blog and hishttp://handmadeshoes.wordpress.com/about/
and his YouTube channel with tutorials on creating hand-made shoes. This is probably one of the best sources in this field, which I found on the Internet. Everyone who interested in shoes, I suggest to check out Marcell Mrsan tutorials. For myself, I found many tips! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c13m_kEllGE&feature=relmfu
Happy browsing. See you soon!A
Last night my friend asked me to upload my new project , which I am working on for quite some time, to the www.kickstarter.com. "Kickstarter" is a community of creative people who help each other realize their projects, and it's based on real financial assistance. I'm, as someone who has realized the benefits of the Internet just recently, had no idea of the existence of such groups. At first I thought it was just like facebook where you can gain popularity regardless of the quality of your work or whatever else that you do, which is not my strongest side. But then, looking at the projects uploaded on "Kickstarter", I found there a lot of really cool ideas and talented people. I really liked this social network. Here is where you can get an objective assessment of your work and get real help for projects that would have remained undone. I particularly liked this project:
I love to travel and, until recently, until I became a mother and wife, all my belongings was placed in a huge suitcase. During my studies I imagined my life as a concept, that I will travel from one place to another, with my tools in the suitcase, doing my craft, making shoes all over the world.
Time passed and things have changed, but the suitcase is still with me. In it I keep some patterns and lasts, and for all my tools and equipment I have accumulated I had to rent a studio. And now I sit in my studio, thinking about the past and dreaming about the future. It all began with the ordinary course of shoe modeling in Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem.
Influenced by nostalgia that came over me, I had an idea to show you how to make a basic model (camicia- Italian). Frankly speaking, it was the thing that draw me to this profession in the first place.
Several comment 1. Cut the attached pattern with a knife, or you can use abrasive paper.
2. At the end of the heel, step in 2 mm to round the corner of the pattern, and draw a line from the middle of the heel to the end.
3. When checking the paper pattern, it should be formfitting the last.
4. For those who have insole ready , should attach the paper pattern to the last together with the insole.
That's it for today, If got any questions about this post and the video, you can leave a comment or contact me directly.
Thank you for reading.
I'll be back next week with new stuff, stay tuned. Sveta Kletina
In the world there are so many interesting things! I am always amazed by talented people who can create complex things in a very simple way. In my opinion the approach to clothes modeling of Japanese designer Shingo Sato is genius. I learned about him accidentally about 7 years ago after seeing interesting book with patterns and instructions, when I was studying in Italy. The book was in Japanese, so I didn't know who wrote it. Only now, once again discovering Shingo Sato, I realized that it was his book. I really liked his way of creating clothing with weave technique . So I decided to try the same principle in modeling shoes when I was at my internship in the "Vicini" factory, and I was allowed to try anything (and I did!).
That's what came out
Now, looking through his training videos, I find many similarities between his technique called Transformational Reconstruction and how I create model structure on the last, driven by my love for 3 dimensional forms .It inspired me to further my search for the boundaries of the possible and "impossible" in shoe design. Look at his training videos and you'll understand what I mean.
Here is one of them:
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I have not written posts and totally abandoned my blog. Perhaps those who read it before, had lost all interest in him. Anyway, I decided to continue my blog and my first post after a long inexcusable break, I dedicate to my video tutorial, where I show how you can make a sandal without special equipment, without shoe last, all by yourself. It was my dream for long time to develop this simple technique, that will allow anyone to make a sandal for themselves without living the house. I want to show you how to do this with so-called "biblical" sandal as the example, and you already can vary based on it. In this post (after you watched the video- both parts),I want to draw attention on a few important moments.
Here is the list of things you need to get it done.
- A4 paper
- duplex cardboard
- pencil
- eraser
-colored markers
-Stanley knife
-masking paper
-punch
-leather glue
-ruler
- punch
-buckle 2 cm wide
-abrasive paper
-drill
-scotch tape
-hammer
-leather for the upper& leather for insoles and soles
-pin
-spoon (yes, a spoon)
Notes to the first part
1. The front of the sandal can be done in any shape: oval, square, pointed, asymmetric, etc.
2. You can use your old sandal to shape the insole .
3. Width of the straps should be the same as the width of the buckle. In my case it is 2 cm.
4. When attaching the straps, the inside (of your foot) strap should be put closer to the base of the thumb and the outer strap to your pinky.
5. Be sure to mark the inner side of each strap.
Notes to the second part
1. Marks on the inside and outside of the insole shall follow the same line, except for the front marks.
2. Add 1.5 cm to each strap (This will be the part which should be glued to the insole). Be sure to cut the mark out in order to identify their position. And then mark it on the leather.
3. The holes for the buckle should be with an interval of 7 mm-1cm.
4. To get a better and straight cut of the leather straps, tape the cardboard straps to the leather using the scotch tape.
5. You don't have to drill the insole for the straps, but it will be easier to glue the insole to the sole in the end.
6.When you put the second layer of glue on the insole and the sole, it should be left to dry for 24 hours.
7. The heel can be in any shape: oval, round, asymmetrical, square (like in my video). For those who size 37, the length should not be above 8.5 cm.
8. Important: It's better to glue the heel to the sole before gluing sole to the insole. 9. You can attach a rubber heel-piece, to prevent the heel grinding.
12. When polishing shoes and insole edges, wet it with water and grind in one direction to obtain a smooth surface.
That's it for this post, feel free to write and comment if you got any question. If you got your sandal done, send me the picture, I would love to post it on my blog.
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