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February 23, 2015
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI DESIGN│Crafting shoes for Lady Gaga!
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI DESIGN
Avant-garde yet chic platform wedge boots take center stage!
Creating shoes for Lady Gaga's tour
Giuseppe Zanotti Design, the Italian luxury footwear brand, captivates with its edgy and exclusive designs. A collaboration has brought forth special shoes for the shape-shifting pop star Lady Gaga, to be showcased on her current world tour.
Text by YANAKA Tomomi
Original shoes born from the resonant sensibilities of Lady Gaga and Giuseppe
Lady Gaga mesmerizes us with her music and performances that defy convention, and her provocative, eccentric, and unique fashion sense. Her creative team commissioned Giuseppe Zanotti to create custom shoes for her current world tour, "The Born This Way Ball Tour," which spans approximately 30 countries and 110 performances, thus realizing this collaboration.
The two have created numerous shoes together before. Giuseppe himself commented, "Collaborating with Lady Gaga is an honor. She loves extreme items that push the boundaries, so while pursuing these limits and exaggerated creativity, I created shoes with extremely high heels that are nevertheless wearable."
Thus, shoes that breathe life into a surreal dream were completed. Using transparent vinyl ribbons and soft black nappa leather, they became futuristic platform wedge boots characterized by a striking height of 243 millimeters and sleek lines.
These shoes are also featured on the tour's official poster. In front of a dark castle shrouded in clouds, Gaga, adorned in a keyboard-sculpted dress, shines in shoes with sharp lines that evoke the darkness of the soul.
These original platform wedge boots, born from the resonant sensibilities of the two artists, have culminated in works that can be called art, encompassing Lady Gaga's own inimitable style in wearing them.
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