2024 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Girls' Crystal Shoes

Entrant Company

ZHE JIANG SEMIR GARMENT CO.,LTD.

Category

Product Design - Baby, Kids & Children Products

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Most young girls have a passion for fairy tales, becoming a princess and putting on the crystal shoes is their ultimate dream. Inspired by this, we collaborated with Swarovski to launch the beautiful expectations from fairy tales into reality, creating a shoe style that combines childhood innocence and luxury, providing a new design inspiration for children's shoes.

The entire shoe surface is adorned with over a thousand Austrian-origin crystals, which have been skillfully crafted by artisans to form a cluster of cut diamond and crystal embellishments, meticulously set in the center of the shoe's upper, to showcase the girl's dazzling and elegant demeanor. The adornment symbolizes that girls are as pure and beautiful as crystal flowers, becoming the most unique light on their future journey.

In order to achieve both aesthetic appeal and comfort, the shoes are equipped with a built-in anti-friction pillow and soft fabric that fits the skin while reducing friction. The textile cutting technique at the 1/3 position of the outsole enhances the flexibility of the footwear while simultaneously considering its aesthetic design, comfort, and durability. The high heel is crafted using a three-in-one steel-core structure process, and the front and back of the shoe are reinforced with high-strength heat-melted linings to provide ample support and anti-twisting performance, thereby better protecting the health of the wearer's feet.

The hook surface of the velcro adopts plastic (recyclable nylon) hooks to ensure a smooth touch and prevent users from being scraped. The hook surface and hook hair have a bite gap of only 1.5 millimeters, which increases the stripping force by 50% and the horizontal pulling force by 200%, effectively preventing the velcro from loosening during the process of a child's locomotion.

Furthermore, the packaging of the product incorporates a glowing jewelry box design, adorned with an exquisite and gorgeous crystal headband, adding a sense of ceremony to a little girl's princess dream. This helps to strengthen the sense of ritual of becoming a dreamy princess, taking shining steps with each stride and witnessing their moment of growth.

Credits

Jin Wuhao
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