Materializing fashion: Designers, materials, ideas and the creation of designer shoes

Abstract

materializing fashion: Designers, materials, ideas and the creation of designer shoes abstractThe article discusses the findings from an extensive ethnographic study of contemporary British women's shoe designers that explored what creativity in shoe design entails. This study profiled 23 shoe designers who create shoes for the high fashion industry. The objective of the study was to tease out how these designers go about creating shoes while at the same time revealing how they perceive and experience their creativity in relation to the commercial world of fashion in which they are engaged. The designers presented in the article are celebrated by the fashion press and buyers internationally as creators of fashion. While the fashion industry enables these designers to create new collections each season, an acceptance that they were creating, or influenced by, fashion was absent from their narratives. Instead, for them, design was defined by creative freedom, expression and personal taste and through the materiality of their creations they were able to present their self-identities. This article presents shoe design as a creative process where materials are significant inspirational stimuli for each designer. Their selection of materials was often triggered by personal Keywords creativity shoes materiality fashion design process commerciality

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