Wait, This Is A Shoe?
A shoe? What do you mean a shoe? This can’t be a shoe! Oh well, I guess it is a shoe.
And a high heel shoe at that. Designed by London architect Julian Hakes, the Mojito shoe is made of carbon fibre—to give it strength and spring—and on top, it’s laminated with rubber on the bottom and leather from furniture manufacturers in High Wycombe, England. According to Hakes:
With a high heel providing the heel is supported, even by standing on a wooden block the foot naturally ’spans’ the gap naturally, with bones and tendons.
Maybe. I guess. Who knows. I need to see this because I have to admit that I’m quite amazed by it—and so was Joanna when she saw it. It will probably cost a gajillion dollars, and will make this curve go completely vertical:
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until i see a foot in it it aint a shoe
no credit for the Indexed image?
If it’s really a shoe why don’t they show it on a foot?
Simon- thanks for spotting that, all images ate copyright Hakes Associates Ltd. The shoe was designed around the foot and is the heel version of the original flat mojito I designed.
You can see all the images on flickr under hakes associates.
I didn’t show a foot as to me the aesthetic of a foot in the shoe was not my starting point. I was more interested in the way the foot is supported and how the geometry allows the two main load points to be supported.
I can upload some new image with the shoe on the foot if you are still keen to see.
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To me it looks ridiculous…But if that’s what the women want so be it
cool concept, but where’s the arch support?