FM BALLET SHOE

A ballet flat rebuilt as a printed object. The brief kept the silhouette everyone recognises, low cut, single strap across the instep, rounded toe, and threw out everything underneath it.

What replaced the sole is the interesting part: a thick moulded platform with a scalloped edge and a deep tread, so the shoe reads as delicate from above and as heavy equipment from the side. Worn with tall white socks, the contradiction is the whole design, a shoe that quotes the most fragile thing in footwear and then stands on a slab.

Designed for Foundry Mews with Yuiko Kida, 2024.