Here Are The World’s Most Extraordinary Shoe Designs, Shared On Virtual Shoe Museum By Liza Snook (Part2)

From killer high heels to Adidas sneakers with teeth dentures as the sole, in a Virtual Shoe Museum run by Liza Snook, you can find all sorts of footwear beyond your imagination.

As Liza shared in an interview with Bored Panda, her journey as a shoe curator and collector started while studying graphic design at the Royal Academy in The Hague in the 1980s. She shared: "I have been collecting almost everything related to shoes. (Wearable) shoes found during traveling completed with books, postcards, articles, and ‘souvenirs’. "

So without further ado, we invite you to delve into the gallery of the most exciting shoe designs by various designers, and for the full interview with Liza, read down below.

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#1 Killer Heels By Joyce De Gruiter

"Unique work, wearable shoes, and mixed media, 2023.

Part of the collection Pink! Punk! Pop! Only the color is suitable for Barbie and Ken. The rest of the cake is for the dare-devils. But I strongly advise: only Look and do not Touch!

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.
And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.
Soundtrack: White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane.

Photo by Bas Duijs."

#2 Flat Stilettos By Kobi Levi

#3 Optimistic Personality By Lyujie Liu

"Part of the London College of Fashion graduation collection ‘Gaint-baby’, 6 pairs of leather shoes with squidgy padded loops, 2023.

Lui: ‘A shoe collection of fashionable footwear. Each pair corresponds to a giant-baby characteristic. Bright colors and decorative lines, my design language to break up the black and white of the adult world. I hope that I can amplify the cuteness of childishness through my designs and help adults to enjoy the positive side of children’s culture.

I am an only child under China’s one-child policy. Most of my peers, like me, are also only children. The whole family dotes on a child, and the over-protection leads to the immaturity of many only children’s minds in adulthood. If possible, I would like to call us ‘gaint-baby’. What is gain-baby? Literally, a gain-baby refers to a huge baby. But in fact, it refers to adults who are mentally stuck in the childhood stage.

As a group of people who don’t want to grow up, gain-baby have their own new outlook on life. They are unwilling to force themselves to be mature and follow the mainstream. They are eager to return to the world of children, enjoy fantasy and try to have fun in life.’

© Lyujie Liu."

#4 Shoetribe 1/5 By Marlou Browaeys

"Part of the graduation collection ‘SHOETRIBE’, 5 pairs of shoes, 4th-year SASK, d’Academie Beeld Sint-Niklaas in Belgium, 2020.

This collection is based on ethnic masks from different population groups from all over the world. The masks are interpreted in a graphical way, based on a striped pattern inspired by optical black-and-white illusions.

The 5 shoe pairs are based on 3 different lasts: pointed – squared – round. These shapes enhance the expression and graphics of the design. The graphic forms overflow into the heel. The sleek architectural heel is a basic part of the collection, with different layers of EVA, (un)coated, or inlaid with pearls. The color palette and the contrasting of (bright) areas of color are inspired by the paintings of Joan Miró.

Material: patent leather (inlay marquetry technique), EVA, and pearls.

Photo by Charlotte Visser."

#5 Rox, Your’e On Mute! By Roxanne Lieckens

#6 Boots By Chris Francis

"Hand-painted boots, 2015.

Material: vegetable-tanned leather, leather and pressed board midsole, cheesecloth, steel, hand-shaped wood platforms, nails, natural glue, and zippers.

© Chris Francis, photo by Noel Bass"

#7 Balance By Amara Hark-Weber

"Gold leather balanced boat-shaped platform mules, part of the ‘Muscle Memory’ collection, 2012-2013.

Memories are written throughout our bodies. Inscribed on bones, stretched through tendons, embedded in muscle, our pasts are present in every movement we make. Having lost major portions of my long-term memory, and struggling with a newly limited short-term memory due to injuries in a car accident, the ‘Muscle Memory’ collection explores how experience and emotion can be recalled through physical sensation and movement.

© Amara Hark-Weber."

#8 Nomads By Oyundelger Mashbat

"Part of the collection ‘Nomads, 4 pairs of shoes, 3rd year SASK, d’Academie Beeld Sint-Niklaas in Belgium, 2022.

High-shaft decorated fabric elevated platforms with decorated leg garters and a metal pendulum at the heel.

A collection inspired by Mongolian traditional ethnic embroidered garments.

Photo by Hessel Waalewijn."

#9 Ludvík By Amálie Magdaléna Mlčochová

"Derby shoe with a soft, smooth pillow contrasting with a hard, rigid, and massive heel, 2022.

Inspired by Louis XIV, particularly portraits of him presenting his pomp and pageantry of his person and consequently of the entire Baroque period ‘L’État, c’est moi’.

Material: Brocade upper with a welded tongue and the cushion replacing the sole, the back parts are made of smooth kid skin. The beech heel is covered with leather.

© Amálie Magdaléna Mlčochová."

#10 Awakenings By Ying Ou

"This collection comes out of Ying’s fear and unease about the loss of physical human contact in public space in this era, leading to a rigidity of self-consciousness. As the development of digital technology and the repeated ravages of the epidemic have exacerbated the disconnection between the body and the physical world, new fields of perception have affected our social systems and habits and have changed the way we perceive the world, which are key elements in the construction of self-identity.

This collection explores the unconscious and unusual interaction between the most obvious objects that have lost their connection in public space – railings or handrails – and the body, experiencing their different mental space sensations. In doing so, it explores new forms of footwear and attempts to evoke human communication and perception with objects in public space and to consider their intimate relationship with each other. And looking for breakthroughs in metal, two-tone leather, and 3D printing.

Photograph by Anson Shen."