Shining composites

technical description

Part of a footwear collection that combines two or more materials with completely different properties. Classic ballerina style with soft ivory suede back and lining. Biscotto leather insole featuring the designer's logo. The light architectural shapes of the off-white moulded carbon fibre front evoke futuristic imagery.

Size 300x140x105mm, 321 gr., 2011.

concept

Zuzana based her footwear collection on the use of high-tech materials, uncommon to shoemaking at this time. Questioning how to benefit from the qualities of these materials to improve shoes and their functionality. Exploring composites: engineered or natural materials constituting a three-dimensional combination of at least two physically or chemically distinct materials, to obtain properties that cannot be achieved by any of the single components alone. Carbon fibre for instance allows for extremely strong and lightweight high heels, which can be designed very slim (enhancing the properties of the composite) or bulky (enhancing its aesthetics). In addition she used rubbery silicones on the surface, instead of hiding them as reinforcements within shoes.

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