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  • With her project ‘Rethinking High Fashion Shoes’ Kristel Peters explores innovative methods and possibilities for shoemaking. She aims to trigger both the Fashion and the shoe industry to design future products, within the concept of circular economy.

     

    Shoes have a large environmental impact; every year we produce 21 billion pair of shoes worldwide and 95% of those ends up in the landfill. Such massive production of shoes is linked with high CO2 emissions, enormous water consumption and the use of highly toxic products. A vast shift towards sustainability is a must. Yet, most fashion houses tend to focus on formal developments, rather than on process and material innovation, giving sustainable solutions the cold shoulder.

     

    To research on such subject and in order to identify valuable alternatives, Kristel developed the project ‘Alice, A Zero Waste Fashion Shoe’.  In collaboration with sustainability experts and thanks to the conducted research, she identified three important guidelines to follow for designing zero waste shoes:

     

    1. The design of the shoe should be modular and ready made for disassembly and reduce the components of a shoe vastly.
    2. The materialisation of the shoe must be zero waste.
    3. The shoe is to be looked at as a service, not as a product.

     

    Following this methodology she designed ‘Alice’, a new modular shoe. ‘Alice’ consists of two detachable parts: the base and the upper. The base is a modular shoe structure, produced through additive manufacturing. The upper is replaceable and it consists of ‘zero waste’ materials. The full shoe can be adapted and customised according to the needs and / or the trends. Thanks to its modular qualities, the shoe is fully recyclable. What if we could grow our shoes?

     

    The search for ‘zero waste’ materials has led Kristel to explore the world of bio-based materials. The texture and the beauty of the growth process of mycelium-materials triggered Kristel’s curiosity. Mycelium is a natural, self-assembling material, capable of turning waste into a strong polymer, which can be then shaped into moulds.

     

    Source: FungalFutures

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