This autumn, Melissa will be launching a collaboration with the amazing Italian artist, custom and all around visionary Gaetano Pesce. in the marketplace that's - lucky for us - flooded with custom meets high street collaborations, Melissa nevertheless handle to pull out a handful of of the best. They've been bringing fashion, art work and new music innovators on aboard for years to lead types to their impressive array of cheap, cheerful and most of all calming bubble-gum scented plastic footwear. Here's a appear at several of the continuing and past highlights:
Gaetano Pesce
These booties are, like every thing Pesce does, a multi-utility item. even however their unique ankle-boot form is covetable appropriate outside of the box, it might also be altered with the specific into seven different shoe styles, from mary-janes to summer sandals. This is executed by snipping apart and the circular bubbles that comprise the shoe. you'll be able to also get creative and cutaway your own special take.
Jean Paul Gaultier
When master of sexual innuendo Jean Paul Gaultier teamed up with Melissa, the result was always going to become smoking, and he didn't disappoint with an elegant take in regards to the traditional strappy sandal. From their cigarette stiletto heel for your organically symmetrical, sensual way the banding wraps round the foot, his collaboration must have been a little little bit ballerina and a good offer S&M.
Isabela Capeto
Brazilian custom Capeto's work for Melissa was fabulously floral. She encrusted sneakers with dozens of moulded daisies. The consequence from a time-span was deeply textured, as if the sneakers experienced been submerged prolonged adequate to develop barnacles, but up-close, they are as pretty as poesies.
Alexandre Herchcovitch
Herchovitch is one particular of Brazilian fashion's largest success stories, also it isn't tough to understand why when you appear at the deceptively simple, lolita-sweet ranges he created for Melissa. From baby booties with solid, stoppable wedge heels to geeky, polka-dot moulded sneaker styles, his work is always covetable, seated just the appropriate side of syrupy.
Karim Rashid
Sensual nonetheless oddly brutal, all around innovator and champion of design for the masses, Karim Rashid's work for Melissa was remarkably style forward, creating a sculptural heel that hinted in a sideways rotation of the custom heel-toe configuration, and sweeping scoring that seemed pretty much such as the subjected musculature of the flayed quad or bicep.
Lovefoxxx
CSS vocalist and queen of Nu-rave Lovefoxx demonstrated far from all her flair for cheeky twee when she teamed up with Melissa, creating a shoe that subtly mirrored her identify with its fox-faced front detailing. Rope twists topped far from the retro-piece, exhibiting the singer's passion for ultra-embellishment.
Campana Brothers
The Campana Brothers' zig zagged creations for Melissa are accurate confections, like lines of sugar melted around and around one particular nonetheless another to develop a delicate wafer in a fine dinner restaurant. The consequence is one particular of intricate weaving, knowning that is the two beautiful and ironic when you consider the fact how the shoes' high-tech creation method is a much cry from any loom.
