Friday, October 14, 2011

Kobi Levi and His Free Style Shoes

You must have seen that Pierre Hardy designed shoes like constructing a building and Alexander Wang designed shoes like piling up wooden block. You must not see that shoes were designed like a doll's head with long hairs. But today, you will see them. They are the shoes which were designed by Kobi Levi.
This is a picture about the cartoon figure Olive Oyl in the famous comic strip Popeye. If you were the designer, what the shape would be in your mind to design a pair of shoes from the inspiration of the figure? There might be many varieties. But today we will see what Kobi Levi had done. He designed a pair of shoes from Olive's head to her body. These are the shoes.
The shoes are beautifully designed. From the first sight of seeing them, you may be reminded in your mind by the black pony tail and the red leather uppers of Olive Oyl.

The other pair of shoes was called "Blond Ambition." They were inspired by the Barbie doll Blond Ambition; we can even say they are a commemoration of the big star Marilyn Monroe.
The leather uppers were pure golden color and with silver hairs on the back strap. And the most typical one is the laces of the shoes; they are black and designed in a microphone shape. So they are really inspired by the blond star Marilyn Monroe.
The two pairs of shoes were the traditional styles of Kobi Levi's designs. All his designs were inspired from different things in our common life. Like his Slide, Sling-Shot and Banana Slip-on 2010 shoes in the past year. Kobi Levi specializes in footwear design and development/making. He is working as freelance designer. He collaborating with many international companies and he is working on his own men shoe line in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
His designs were very fresh and they are not like the famous brands with fixed patterns. His styles are changing all the time. They come from different corners of our life. It seems that every thing in our life would be the thought resource of his designs. I think most people would love his designs. There are no limitations in his designs and they are all free styles. If you love his shoes, you will get a surprise every time when he has new designs, just like the Olive Oyl and Blond Ambition. Because you do not know what would be his resource next time, wearing his shoes is just like you are having an adventure through different kinds of shoes.

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