When I was at footwear college in 2004 one of the projects we were given was to design a shoe for Clarks. The brief was to design a child's shoe which utilises a child friendlier closure than laces (for example). So I went off and designed this (rather colourful) girl's shoe which has a tie and toggle closure. In the end, Clarks liked it, but they said my design wasn't commercial enough...ah well commercial, sch-mmercial!
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All leather upper and hand stitched toe. Learning how to make shoes gave me lots of transferable skills for bag making and design (which happens to be a whole lot easier!) And shoe making is brilliant fun.
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To find out more about the footwear course that I took (and it's famous shoe designer alumni) and to see pics of MUCH prettier shoes being handmade hop over to my other blog.
