The Felt Shoes are the foundation pieces in the Natural Selection collection. Made from 100% wool felt of high quality from Daimer Filze http://www.daimer-filze.com , essentially felt tubes are moulded into and around 3D printed forms using millinery techniques. Binders are stratigically added to vary densities creating hollow heels and suspended foot beds. This reduces components and…
Hemp non-woven sheets were steamed and compression moulded with soft/ hard wool felt socks. The socks were suspended an essentially moulded tube with ledges. Binders gave further structure to the heel. These hemp sheets are used in automotive interior body panels, trays and furniture.
This is a 3D printed study of the platform for the proposed form and design using Paper Pulp material from the company Sodra. A ‘soft/hard’ wool felt sock is used for the upper. is a material which under heat and compression moulding can process into a bioresin type plastic. Durapulp has the strength to be…
The Cocolok shoes were made of coconut, latex and Bioresin with a wool felt sock. The material was left exposed to go some way to show off it’s beauty. Coir from the company ENKEV is coco fibre collected from the coconut husk. It is transformed into sheets providing excellent ventilation. The sheets are sprayed with natural…
A non woven 100% Flax was explored. The material is produced by Norafin Industries in Germany. http://www.norafin.com and won an innovation award in 2011. It is light weight, tear-resistent durable, flexible, comfortable and easy to impregnate. Applications include public transportation/aviation, wind energy, wire & cable application, roll covers, body armour & ballistic protection, motorsports and yachting. The material was…
These shoes take the structure and material of the felt shoes and play around with the fit of the top line. The felt material has differing fit points than a conventional court shoe. Leather was used as retaining element to the higher court line. The 5mm thickness of the felt sitting in between the skin…
Part of what BespokeLab… does is contact designers, artist, scientist and engineers doing interesting work for collaborations. Near the end of working on the Natural Selection work, it became evident synthetic biology would offer some solutions to the material options for additive manufacturing. Suzanne Lee of BioCouture consults on bio materials for emerging technologies. Her…
The Manchu shoe was made for Arena Page’s 2012 collection. Ten shoes were made and Arena’s collection was show at the London College of Fashion external MA show at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. The shoes were inspired but the strong Manchu women where foot binding was outlawed. These women wore platform under low…
Shown are a collection of various leather goods designed in passed seasons. Ranging from UK, Italy and Far East manufacturing, bespoke to high street and in the case of the spat leather shoes hand made myself. The bags were designed for the label Nadia Minkoff and were shown over many seasons at London Fashion Week.
The approach to designing footwear is underpinned by years designing product and furniture mainly at the London consultancy Hollington Associates. There we designed furniture for Herman Miller to SCP, the retailer producer who gave most of the big British based furniture designers a platform outlet. The metal stacking chair is part of the Design Museums collection.…
