Developing jewellery for your feet.
Re-love your pre-loved sneakers and other lace-up footwear.
The Backstory...
Upon research into how the vehicles we use to travel on the roads can be modified through the addition of aesthetic or performance enhancing components, I decided to engage in similar research for the vehicles we use on a much more frequent basis, and yet are often forgotten...our feet.
Adorning our footwear...
Combining ideas of vehicle modifications with how else we adorn our bodies, I decided to begin sampling by dressing a model of the Porsche 911 with jewellery upon a shoelace pattern, before vacuum forming them with a variety of thermoplastics.
Sample 01/02:
Sample 01, 0.5mm transparent PETG allows for greater detail of jewellery to be shown and greater flexibility for improved wearability
Sample 02, 1mm acrylic provides a sturdier outcome despite its lack of detail.
Design development...
Removal of one vehicle, enhancement of the other. Directly dressing a shoe with jewellery, re-innovating its design and extending its product life.
Concept:
