Dutch footwear brand United Nude has teamed up with Japanese fashion label Issey Miyake to create two new designs ? a fragmented platform sandal with a wooden sole and a wrapped leather shoe.
United Nude founder and architect Rem D Koolhaas teamed up with Issey Miyake's head of womenswear Yoshiyuki Miyamae to create the two new shoe styles, which debuted at the fashion brand's Spring Summer 2017 collection show in Paris last week.
Models at Issue Miyake's Spring Summer 2017 collection presentation in Paris wore the Rock shoes, created in collaboration with United Nude
The Rock and Wrap shoes are based on Japanese fashion designer and brand founder Issey Miyake's Ten Sen Men ? or point, line and surface ? concept.
The Rock shoe is reminiscent of traditional Japanese platform sandals and features a fragmented base made from wood. Feet are secured into the curved sole using adjustable leather straps. The shape of the sole is meant to suggest that the shoe has been cut from a piece of rock. The front curves up to enable the wearer to walk naturally, and the design will be available in white, black, pink, beige, yellow and green.

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The Wrap shoe features an upper made from a single piece of silver, white or black leather wrapped around the foot and attached to the sole.
An elastic section around the opening for the foot lends the structure of the shoes e...