Born 1990 in Heerewaarden, the Netherlands.
Nienke was an intern at Ecco Leather from September to December 2012 and had an extra training Artisanal Shoe Making at the
Dutch Health Tec Academy.
Contact and
information: info@nienkevandee.com / www.nienkevandee.com
Focus
My finals collection is a research project on new forms for
women’s shoes. It is based on visualisations of a future in which space travel
is a common practice. Space age visualization as a genre has its roots in
modernist tradition – take for example the work of fashion designer André
Courrège – but is still very much alive today. After collecting and studying
this kind of image material my next step was to translate certain of its
characteristics into a set of constructions, materials and ways of detailing
for women’s shoes.
Production/materials
Being a probe into new forms, my finals collection has no direct
commercial use. This collection is important for my own development as a shoe
designer and intended as a starting point for future commercial shoe
collections.
Finals collection: Encapsulated
1 Hypogravity, based on streamlined spacesuits, sole and heal are merged in a bimorph shape, lycra sock, pvc
2 Reinforce, a protective cap around the foot, leather, wood
3 Gravitation, half processed leather, formed as it is still wet
Prototypes/research/experiments
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