A footwear designer, fashion label and digital artist outfit the Lexus LF-Z Electrified electric concept as virtual rendered interiors.

A footwear designer, an artist and fashion label all walk into a Lexus design studio…
It may sound like the start of a joke, but Lexus did in fact invite a trio of creatives well outside the realm of automotive design to imagine what the auto brand’s battery electric concept vehicle, the LF-Z Electrified, might look like once liberated from the constraints of both industry and safety standards. The blue sky results as explored by sneaker designer Salehe Bembury, digital artist Ondrej Zunka and Japanese fashion label Hender Scheme are all wild and wildly different…

Salehe Bembury
The footwear designer’s brightly colored virtual interior juxtaposes “machine and nature? with a unique use of speckled sandstone finishes and other natural tones introduced with the use of natural materials like cedar, cork and granite. Bembury?s approach borrows from his background in sneaker design, covering his seats with ?hairy? suede and a fingerprint motif upon the vehicle’s control panel, ornamentation often found in the designer?s work and applied here for a personalized control panel.

?Just as he has done with footwear, Salehe has pushed the envelope of what design can be in terms of material selection, silhouette and storytelling,? says Brian Bolain, general manager at Lexus International, ?He is one of the ...