Your Shoes Are Rubbish is a project conceived and executed by three UK designers, Charles Duffy, William Gubbins, and Billy Turvey. For the project they went to their local beach and collected all the moldable trash they could.
Taking the trash home, they washed it, melted it down, and made a pair of sneakers (that look remarkably like Nike's Janoski). Even the laces were hand woven from plastic roping they found among the trash.
They say the project is, “a satirical critique of the legacy we consumers leave in our wake.” The problem isn’t that we buy too many shoes, or that shoes are bad, but we should examine how quickly we decide to throw things out. Your Shoes Are Rubbish asks us to take a look at how quickly we throw things out, maybe there’s more uses from them after we’re done.
Either way, the process for creating this pair of plastic shoes is really dope, and the kicks themselves don’t look half bad. Take a look at the video and watch the three guys make the pair for yourself.
Either way, the process for creating this pair of plastic shoes is really dope, and the kicks themselves don’t look half bad. Take a look at the video and watch the three guys make the pair for yourself.
source: complex.com By Pete Forester
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