“The shoes are the same from YLL AWARD ITS#8. I hope you like them” said Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato.
Nakazato was of course referring to the shoe that saw him take out the
prestigious (and highly lucrative) YLL Award at this year’s ITS#8. Nakazato
needed have worried since Imelda’s love affair with the forward thinking
designer is only hotting up!
Nakazato’s award winning shoe is titled [o] and was created
using a circular piece of flat leather that folds and wraps up to the leg and forms the centre piece of his S/S 10 collection The
Japanese based visionary combines the art of origami with industrial zippers to
transform the flat piece of leather into solid form.
"Metal Knit" technology, Nakazato explains “treats
metal like fabric” and was coloured by a special chemical which gives the shoe
the look of armor.
Talking to the Despotic Queen, Nakazato explains “I’ve been
tried to create shoes by traditional way of Japan which like a kimono. Circles
are completely a different shape from human body, and each has different
beauty, but together of them create new shape and possibility”
Like Nakazato’s esoteric Da
Vinci inspired designs (SEEN HERE), [o] is destined to be the centre piece
in any future footwear retrospectives, including Nakazato’s own which, based on
his current output shouldn’t be too far off. Just ‘member y’all heard it here
first.
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