Italian footwear company Vibram recently released a pair of shoes that literally wrap around your foot. The idea came from Japanese designer Masaya Hashimoto, who took his inspiration from the Japanese tradition of Furoshiki. There are many techniques to wrap pretty much anything, likes boxes, flowers, or to make bags, but nobody thought of using this art to create shoes so far.
Shoe that actually adapts to your foot and provides great angle support. In terms of look-and-feel, the results are a bit surprising at first sight, but the revealing of the undelying structure gives it an intersting design.
Before bags in Japan, people used furoshiki — elegant cloths that come in various colors and decorative patterns that can be used to wrap and carry various items. While you don’t really see them in daily use now, furoshiki are quite useful in their own way, as they can be folded and tied in different ways and be used to wrap items of varying shapes and sizes, in addition to being eco-friendly.
Furoshiki Shoes features:
- Colors: violet, black, aqua, pearls, jeans
- Upper shoe: 72% polyamide, 28% elastane
- Sole: 100% rubber
- Size: Medium, Small, Extra Small
- Medium: 24.5-25.5cm (9.6-10″)
- Small: 23-24cm (9.1-9.4″)
- Extra Small: 21.5-22.5cm (8.5-8.9″)