Silvia Fado

Since deciding to leave any possible career in architecture behind it has been rearing its head every so often just to let me know its here to stay and will forever be part of my academic history. Amazingly it has cropped up in the most interesting of areas - footwear. I have a major soft spot for designs and designers/architects that have dabbled in footwear and Silvia Fado is just that; hugely inspired by architecture and knitwear and passionate about footwear.

Fado's latest collection 'Kinetic Traces' looks at the way the body moves, along with fashion design and high performance sports footwear. With fashion footwear often pretty to look at but not so comfy to wear Fado is exploring the relationship between functional and high end fashion footwear. Her designs are fantastic and have some great elements that really make you want to look closer at the design. Fado graduated at London college of fashion so for all you budding footwear designers Fado is a great example of what you could accomplish following a career in footwear.

W - www.silviafado.com

F - Silvia Fado

I - @silviafado_shoes

Zara Boots - Components

Sunday evening I did the unimaginable, I went about dismantling a shoe right down to its core components. Given they were an old pair of Zara boots (which I had bought 2 pairs of) I was more than happy to say goodbye to them. Now this was by no means an easy task - I had to use every tool available in the box to take them apart but what I did learn is that shoes are a lot more complicated than meets the eye! Here's how I did it >