Slemazine coming soon!

As of Friday September 14 you can download the next issue of Slemazine, featuring trend info for SS 2014, a preview of the best footwear graduation works from around the globe and our GDS lectures, for all of you who could not come to Dusseldorf! To not spoil the fun for those who are here, we decided not to release the issue until after the show.

SLEM @ GDS

Are you at GDS in Dusseldorf this week? Please come see our booth in Hal 3E03 and enjoy our spectacular preview of the "Watch our Steps" exhibition, featuring the best graduation works from ArtEZ (Arnhem), Royal College of Art (London) and Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry (Tokyo).

As an extra bonus you have us teach you how to lace your shoes.... in a better way :-)

Furthermore, you are welcome to join our free seminars in the speaker's corner in Hal 7.

SLEM Masterclass Industrial Footwear Design

Have you always wanted to become a professional footwear designer for the industry? Then read our updated brochure for the six-month Masterclass Industrial Footwear Design that starts in January 2013.

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SLEM activities 2012

Curious about our exhibitions, lectures, courses and workshops for 2012? You can now read and/or download our latest brochure!

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SLEM introduces TEAM1

Not only does SLEM offer education for footwear students and professionals, the organization as such is a school as well, providing traineeships to students. We proudly present our first team of trainees who will help build SLEM from scratch.

SLEM @GDS

Amber Verstegen

At the upcoming GDS in Dusseldorf, from September 5-7, SLEM will present its first activities in a brand new spacious booth on a brand new location in Hall 3! Visitors of GDS can visit two free seminars and see a preview of the spectacular expo Watch Our Steps. For the first time ever the best footwear graduation works from around the world will be shown together! The full exhibition can be seen at  Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, from October 20-28, but exclusively for GDS we will highlight works from the graduates of the new Master of Shoe Design course from ArtEZ, as well as the Royal College of Art, London College of Fashion and the Hiko Mizuno Academy from Tokyo. You could say the expo is a trend forecast as such, giving insight into future style themes, new technologies and sustainable ideas.

MM&F Leather Trends SS 2013

For those of you working on your SS 2013 collection we have just uploaded four new photo albums to our fb page with all the images we took of the leather trend forum at the MM&T (Materials, Manufacturing & Technology) fair in Hong Kong this week, one of the important material shows for the Asian footwear and leather goods market.

There are four separate themes and each album contains the description provided by MM&T, including the pantone numbers. The differences between the trend stories are mainly in the use of colour though, since you find artificial grains, creases, (fantasy) reptile prints, iridescent or uneven colours, transparent finishes, cosmetic metallics, fine perforations, floral prints and geometric waves and textures throughout.