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Zaha Hadid Breaks The Mold Again

August 26, 2009  5:54 pm

Chanel may have grounded Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art Pod late last year, but one of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s most recent fashion collaborations, a jelly shoe for the Brazilian brand Melissa, has just landed in Brooklyn. “We’re the main destination for Melissa shoes in New York City, so our customers have been making the trek out to see the Zaha,” says Adele Berne, who co-owns the Carroll Gardens shop Epaulet with her fiancé, Michael Kuhle. “We’ve had a few customers, including several guys, buy them just to display in their home.” Berne assures us that despite some shoppers’ proclivities to collect them like art, Hadid’s curvy rubber shoes are actually quite comfortable. They’re waterproof and washable to boot, and we prefer them to her design for Lacoste. Epaulet is the only store in the U.S. currently selling the shoes, and they’re going fast.

tags: Epaulet, Lacoste, Zaha Hadid

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1. I couldn’t imagine anyone with less taste for shoe design… coherent? I’ll give her that: it’s rubber. but beautiful? never.

   By opinion on 08/27/09 at 7:58 am

2. I’d wear it…well maybe if it wasn’t so damn shiny.

   http://vinesteet.blogspot.com/

   By isisandosirus on 08/27/09 at 2:22 pm

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