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Who even though of making such crazy shoes? Cat Potter graduated the MA at the London College of Fashion, and is currently living in London. The designer creates both conceptual as well as wearable shoes.
Her collection Pernilla crosses the line between making shoes and goes towards arts. She combines sculpture with architecture since the shoes are made with the help of CadCam technology and 3-axis milling machines.
photo compositionzerotwo.blogspot.ro
Pernilla won the Jimmy Choo MA Final Collection Award for Excellence 2012 from Cordwainer’s Guild.
How does she do it? The foot is measured with the help of a 3D scanner, used to precisely show the foot’s shape in the interior creating thus its profile on the exterior. The final result is a series of sophisticated shapes and very sculptural made of walnut tree or pear tree. Although they look very unpractical since the shoes have an abstract shape of block but still are wearable and perfectly shaped by the foot and is very carefully paying attention to height, foot wideness and ankle.
photo dezeen.com
The collection is inspired by Ricky Swallow’s wooden sculptures, combining both futuristic concepts, as well as traditional ones. The wood was, in fact, among the first materials to be used in making shoes, and Cat Potter revived this method in an innovative way, ignoring any formal limit that can block the creative process.
photo catpotter.com
photo dezeen.com
““Using wood in conjunction with milling machines has allowed me to explore shape without being restricted by traditional shoe components like insole boards, shanks or toe and heel puffs. Using a scanned 3D model of a last has allowed me to trace the silhouette form of the foot on the inside, diffusing its profile on the outside.”
photo catpotter.com
photo dezeen.com
photo jybyjasonyaoyao.blogspot.com
by Alexandra Ivașcu
Alexandra Ivașcu is a fashion designer living and working in Cluj. She is pursuing her PhD at the University of Arts and Design, Cluj, studying the representation of the couple in contemporary art
For more information visit http://ivascualexandra.com/.
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