{"id":6285,"date":"2014-06-17T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2014-06-17T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:46:41","slug":"are-those-shoes-made-of-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/are-those-shoes-made-of-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Are those shoes made of hair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designers <a href=\"http:\/\/christophjohn.com\/index.php\/made-c\/lei-zu---shoe-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Goymann and Christoph John<\/a> have created decorative shoe pieces that may look like hair but are actually made from deconstructed silk worm cocoons!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6289\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1.jpg\" alt=\"silk shoe 1\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-1-299x299.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two designers named this the\u00a0Lei Zu Shoe Collection after the Chinese empress who invented the silk reel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6290\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-2.jpg\" alt=\"silk shoe 2\" width=\"468\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-2.jpg 468w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-2-299x210.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The appearance of hair strands\u00a0is created by using fine threads of silk wet down and then shaped\u00a0into these beautiful shoe designs. Natural silk glue hold the strands together until they dry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6291\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-4.jpg\" alt=\"silk shoe 4\" width=\"468\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-4.jpg 468w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-4-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoe-4-299x350.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nicole and Christoph hope to create wearable versions of these silk shoes in the near future but in the meantime we can look on in awe\u00a0at their creative talent!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6292\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi.jpg\" alt=\"silk shoes multi\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi.jpg 468w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/silk-shoes-multi-299x299.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dezeen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John have created decorative shoe pieces that may look like hair but are actually made from deconstructed silk worm cocoons! &nbsp; &nbsp; The two designers named this the\u00a0Lei Zu Shoe Collection after the Chinese empress who invented the silk reel. &nbsp; &nbsp; The appearance of hair strands\u00a0is created by using &#8230; <a title=\"Are those shoes made of hair?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/are-those-shoes-made-of-hair\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Are those shoes made of hair?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,387,23,29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-avant-garde-2","category-design","category-hair-2","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}