[Footwear News] Why Emerging Talent Award Winner Phileo Landowski Chose Shoes Over Cars and Ended Up With a Comme des Garcons Collaboration
On Dec. 4, Philéo Landowski will be honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the 38th annual FN Achievement Awards. Below is an article from the magazine’s Dec. 2 print issue about his rapid rise to fame.
Footwear wasn’t a field Paris-born designer Philéo Landowski imagined for his career. In fact, he was more interested in another form of mobility — automobiles.
But trading one for the other wasn’t as much of a sacrifice as one might assume.
“What interests me in a shoe is its interaction with a space, and the artistic aspect. But you can’t forget that it’s a product and there’s biomechanical engineering at play,” he told FN. “It questions the idea of volume, which you find in cars, in many fields of design and more loosely in fashion.”
By Lily Templeton