Mojito Shoes Past Times Julian Hakes

I institute these crazy awesome shoes from designer Julian Hakes and I dear them fifty-fifty though at 5'7 I experience likewise tall to apparel heels inwards this province total of midgets.

 

 The Julian Hakes Story

“One belatedly summertime nighttime I was inwards the studio, thinking close the pattern of shoes inwards general. I wondered why in that place was the remove for
a pes plate inwards high heels.When I hold off at a pes impress inwards the sand it was clear to me that the primary forcefulness goes to the heel too ball, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than thence inwards a heeled shoe.

If you lot were to stand upwards amongst your heel on a wooden block the pes naturally spans the gap to the floor. If the pes has its ain inbuilt strength too back upwards why duplicate this?
You would non bring a shirt amongst stiff arms betwixt the elbows too the wrists.

So this raised the question: if the early on pattern of a shoe was an development of the humble sandal was this procedure limited past times the materials too technology available? How tin novel materials too pattern techniques Pb to a novel solution, an evolution, perhaps a revolution?

So I began exploring these questions inwards a similar means to how I would pattern a edifice or a bridge; examining the charge path too looking at the most simple, elegant nevertheless poetic appear of the forces at play inside the materials used.

The resulting shape was rather similar a twist of lime tegument too thence I named it the ‘Mojito’.
The Mojito is a unique shoe design. It is a unmarried wrapped geometry which starts nether the ball of the foot, sweeps over the bridge, too then downward below the heel earlier twisting dorsum on itself to supply the back upwards for the heel”.-Julian Hakes- Architect too Sculpture designer

On the website they are unopen to $294/85 KD they are less on Amazon $250/72 KD

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