Last night I attended the launch of Finsk & Skin by FINSK Shoes.
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Hosted and held by Samson Soboye, owner of the Soboye Boutique, FINSK sowcased an electric selection from their Spring Summer 2013 Collection.
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Instantly I was in awe of the vibrancy and the apparent complexity in their structural composition.
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The talent behind the FINSK Shoes is Julia Lundsten, originally from Finland and a graduate from London’s Royal College of Art. Lundsten has been the winner of the prestigious Manolo Blahnik Award for two years running, with her collection described as ‘exquisite, divine and perfect’ by Manolo Blahnik himself.
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Having seen samples of FINSK Shoes online, I initially expected the collection to be colourful version of United Nude’s take on incorporating structural engineering and architecture to footwear. However, once I saw, held and tried the shoes myself, it was instantly obvious that FINSK Shoes are clearly distinctive in their own right, unapologetically fierce and certainly give credit to Lundsten limitless imagination.
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It also didn’t surprise me to hear that Julia Lundsten’s father was an architect and her mother an interior designer, as both influences are strongly evident in her designs. Additionally, FINKS Shoes collection is all made ethically in Brazil; the production process is as ethical as possible and all leathers used in Lundsten’s designs are by-products of other industries.
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