Koolhaas Takes on Bad Design Villains in LA
Rem D. Koolhaas continues clever and abstract design in Los Angeles.
His Möbius shoe shot him to fame in 2003 and Rem D. Koolhaas became widely known as the designer of the first high heel that crossed over from fashion design to industrial design. He was a heartbroken architecture student when he first drew the shoe on a piece of paper a few years earlier. Whether the girl who left him was the inspiration for the feminine object or whether it was his childhood obsession with sneakers, his drawing did not come from a fascination with fashion, but from his interest in spatial design. And he knew immediately that he designed something radical.
?It was an exciting feeling?, Koolhaas recalls. ?So I made a prototype.? The model of the hollow loop-shaped high heel was made out of cardboard and tinfoil, and was strategically placed in his uncle?s office: the other Rem Koolhaas, world famous architect and cofounder of OMA. ?My timing was deliberate?, admits Koolhaas. ?I was helping my uncle with a New York store design for Prada and I was curious if the Prada executives would notice the shoe.? They did, and subsequently Koolhaas flew to Milan to meet renowned shoe maker Sergio Rossi. ?He urged me to launch my own label?, says Koolhaas, ?because nobody in the footwear industry was doing anything like my looped heel.? When Koolhaas? search for a partner led him to Galahad Clark of the Clarks shoes dynasty, United Nude was born. Issey Miyake x United Nude
Möbius became a s...
His Möbius shoe shot him to fame in 2003 and Rem D. Koolhaas became widely known as the designer of the first high heel that crossed over from fashion design to industrial design. He was a heartbroken architecture student when he first drew the shoe on a piece of paper a few years earlier. Whether the girl who left him was the inspiration for the feminine object or whether it was his childhood obsession with sneakers, his drawing did not come from a fascination with fashion, but from his interest in spatial design. And he knew immediately that he designed something radical.
?It was an exciting feeling?, Koolhaas recalls. ?So I made a prototype.? The model of the hollow loop-shaped high heel was made out of cardboard and tinfoil, and was strategically placed in his uncle?s office: the other Rem Koolhaas, world famous architect and cofounder of OMA. ?My timing was deliberate?, admits Koolhaas. ?I was helping my uncle with a New York store design for Prada and I was curious if the Prada executives would notice the shoe.? They did, and subsequently Koolhaas flew to Milan to meet renowned shoe maker Sergio Rossi. ?He urged me to launch my own label?, says Koolhaas, ?because nobody in the footwear industry was doing anything like my looped heel.? When Koolhaas? search for a partner led him to Galahad Clark of the Clarks shoes dynasty, United Nude was born. Issey Miyake x United Nude
Möbius became a s...
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