Noritaka Tatehana

Noritaka Tatehana (born Tokyo, Japan 1985) is a Japanese shoe designer born into a family that ran a public bathhouse. He studied fine arts, Japanese craft, dyeing, and weaving at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Tatehana has created clothing, including kimonos and shoes, and many of his designs are held in the public collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Tatehana handcrafts each step of the manufacturing process of his shoes, all of which are collection pieces. His futuristic shoes, which re-think the notion of "high heels", are unique in both decoration and style, as they are often heel-less platform shoes. His shoes come in a wide variety of colours and patterns, from black to silver, and from fiery red to gold.

In 2011, it was reported that the pop star Lady Gaga owned 14 pairs of Tatehana's shoes.[1]

Tatehana's shoes were included in the V&A Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition in 2015-16.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Dumas, Daisy (17 August 2011). "They cost up to $15,000 and Lady Gaga already has 14 pairs: Meet the man behind trend for gravity-defying heel-less shoes". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Shoes: Pleasure and Pain Victoria and Albert Museum". Vogue.co.uk. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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