Thread by @futures_nft

📍🧵 THREAD #Creator #DigitalFashion

We partner with footwear creators (designers and brands) to pave the way for the next-gen sneakers and design the future of footwear. During the @drp_ville festival we showcase and highlight 3 of our creators 👇

1/ Redd Smith

He's a footwear designer based in Bristol 🇬🇧 He's exploring the bridge between virtual and physical sneakers by designing in #VirtualReality and using the disruptive 3D printing tech of @TheZellerfelds Redd is currently designing footwear at @GravitySketch ✍️

👟 His model on our booth is the “Regenerate”. Inspiration for this concept came from the way plants and trees generate growth around man-made objects such as railings and walls.

He will be present on our booth Saturday June 25th.

2/ @Felipe_Fiallo_

Named by Vogue Italy as one of the top 5 sustainable sneakers designers, he's an innovative, provocative and modernistic Latin-American footwear designer who combines sophisticated design, biology, and digital fabrication with a radical eco-futuristic vision.

📚 While pursuing a Master's Degree in Footwear & Luxury Accessories Design in Italy, Felipe won an Adidas MakerLab scholarship competition, specializing in digital #fabrication and #sustainability, which ensured him to win world awards

👟 His 3D Printed model on our Booth is “Chameleon” The collection is known for its extraordinary look and fascinating color palette. It is entirely inspired by a chameleon which has the unique ability to transform itself and reflect the surrounding world 🌍

👟 The sneaker design is executed in additive technology and high-quality materials that are growing in a laboratory, using parametric design of Voronoi-based porous structure imitating new and old skins of a chameleon in the upper and in the sole respectively 🦎

3/ Finn Rush-Taylor @FRTStudio

Finn is a #Footwear #designer with a strong passion for both #fashion and #sport. He have 3 years of experience in the footwear industry working at PUMA, The Footsoldiers and Vivobarefoot. He recently started as a freelance designer at Adidas.

👟His model on our booth is "The Heretic".

A shoe in collaboration with @TheZellerfelds designer Svet Abjo. The Heretic is designed with asymmetry heavy texturing mixed with Zellerfeld's signature mesh 3D Printed texture.

🧵This is the end of our thread but only the beginning of our mission... Follow us on Instagram to keep up with the rest of our adventure during and after @drp_ville:

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