KOBI LEVI: The surrealist designer

By letizia At martedì, gennaio 17, 2012 1

Avete mai pensato di indossare scarpe a forma di teiera o a forma di buccia di banana? Solo pensarlo vi fa sorridere? Beh, allora dovrete scoprire le creazioni di Kobi Levi.
Definito dalle riviste un geniale stilista surrealista, Levi disegna e crea calzature piuttosto insolite, ispirandosi ad oggetti d'uso comune, agli animali e ai corpi umani.
Laureatosi a Gerusalemme alla Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design nel 2001, il designer concepisce la scarpa come una vera e propria scultura, dove riversare tutta la sua fantasia e il suo estro.
Ecco la gallery delle sue creazioni:

'When I design a shoe I think about it as a sculpture to wear, an art piece you live with. You and your body affect its look and it affects yours. Footwear should have its life with and without being on the feet, on the contrary to cloths that exist only when being worn'. Kobi Levi

" In my artistic footwear design the shoe is my canvas. The trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. The piece is a wearable sculpture. It is "alive" with/out the foot/body. Most of the inspirations are out of the "shoe-world",