Zanotti “Ghost” Wedges
posted by: shoesense in Giuseppe Zanotti Shoes, Wedges on January 8th, 2008
One of my favorite places to take visitors in Philly is the so-called “Ghost Structure,” built where Ben Franklin’s house used to stand. As you can see, it’s a pretty neat idea, a symbolical structure outlining the shape of things past:
For some reason, that structure popped to mind when I recently saw these 6-inch wedges from Giuseppe Zanotti:
Just the outline of a proper shoe, if you ask me–a neat idea taken to extremes and which had better stayed applied in architecture only. It’s like someone cast a Ridiculus! spell over a proper wedge, making it hollow, dangerous to walk in, and forehead-creasingly expensive ($750).
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July 23, 2008 at 3:49 am, Christian Werner said:
The design of my 'Zoe' is a registered design since january 2007. The idea to this shoe began with a question: Did ever someone eliminate all the material within the wedge? We did quite some research on that but could not find any. So we did it. The idea to it goes back to April 2006.
In August 2007 we sent pictures of a first prototype to the British design magazine 'Wallpaper'. They told us to publish it within an article about high-heels in their March/2008 issue. But instead of our 'Zoe' we found there the first public image of that Zanotti shoe you show in your blog. Strange isn't it ???
So we ask ourselves what did they do with the images we mailed them?
If you can tell us of any publication of the Zanotti-design before March'08 or even before August'07 we would be more than grateful to get to know about.
Aside – isn't fashion more or less always about interpreting things ? We still think, our Zoe is much more consequent – and prettier.
BVy the way – we will be ready to put 'Zoe' to the market (Europe first) and you can believe me, we do everything to cut the price!
Best regards, C.Werner