Fun Shoes By Kobi Levi

Getting back to basics is an attitude.
It is a desire to relook the heart of a discipline  Or a principle. Or a lifestyle.


What is the core? It is a desire to strip away the non-essentials that accumulate over time for purposes of embellishments.


Getting back to basics in art is to get in touch with the first thing that makes art exciting.


And what is that?


For me it is that loaded word: relationships.


Specifically in this context, it is lines that are combined with observed elements in nature. 


Straight lines. Curved lines. These are the basic elements. But in the inventive mind of Kobi Levi, the Israeli shoe designer, they are reconfigured with the elements of plants and creatures of nature. And I find this playfulness in adapting the shapes of the shoe with ducks, bananas, the hips and thighs and other observed parts in nature, very enjoyable.

View the art pieces in this collection for ladies to have some fun while strolling. What fun!



















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