SHOE MUSEUM
TREND OR FUTURE? FOOTWEAR AND SUSTAINABILITY
In 2021, 22 bilion shoes were produced worldwide – about 2.8 per person – and the expected lifetime of each pair is only 1 year. However, an ecological and environmental awareness is beginning to take hold among designers, industrialists, and consumers. The exhibition “TREND or FUTURE? Footwear and Sustainability”, created by the Shoe Museum in partnership with CTCP – Portuguese Footwear Technological Centre and APICCAPS – Portuguese Footwear, Components, Leather Goods Manufacturers’ Association, showcases projects, materials, products, and innovative actions towards a more sustainable future for the production of footwear in Portugal.
BEAUTY BENEATH THE SKIN. RENÉ VAN DEN BERG SHOES
René van den Berg is a designer and teacher from the Netherlands, who finds his creativity in technique and a non-conservative and even adventurous way of looking at footwear.
René van den Berg looks at the projects in his hands with humour, inverting and deconstructing the pre-defined structures and the instituted places of materials and components, creating objects that question the traditional systems of construction, fixing and decoration.
The exhibition Beauty Beneath the Skin. René van den Berg Shoes, brings together fifty-one shoes, various objects and three sculptures and inaugurates, thus, the presence of the artist in Portugal.
This is the first solo exhibition of the designer nicknamed The best kept secret in shoe business.
