Nina Christen, shoe designer at Bottega Veneta: "Shoes are sculptures"

Annabelle: Nina Christen, IT shoe is part of IT shoe in her entrée-on UGG boat.You wear Uggs? Nina Christians: in winter.These are not such bad shoes at all.We just connoted them with the people they were wearing when they were most sensitive to them.If a shoe dislikes me, I think: better this reaction than none.And question: what bothers me?Why?There is a lot of inspiration in rejection.

Are you regularly dealing with the work of other brands? No.Except with those of Prada in the nineties.For me, a shoe is like a code.Most of the time I read it immediately: The shaft was made there, the paragraph there.I am not interested in what I can read.

Nina Christen, Schuhdesignerin bei Bottega Veneta: «Schuhe sind Skulpturen»

What interests you? I question everything.Often we use outdated standards, live in the past.I would like to look into new techniques, new standards, look into the future.What still makes sense when designing shoes in five years?

What? Artificially produced organic rubber and materials that are recyclable or biodegradable.