Eurochocolate 2004 and Stephanie Seymour's DELISHOES

Important to let people know that years ago in 2004 I was the original creator of DELISHOES, a collection of shoe sculptures that looked very much like chocolate shoes.
There were many articles written about my exhibition in the papers, here are a few of them dating in 2004-2005.

 In Chocolate and Chocolate magazine and pictures of my shoes 

The Eurochocolate program, 2004 with writing about my exhibition 

Marie Claire magazine 2005. The leopard shoe with tail is my design, which then inspired other designers to place tails onto shoes. 

Vanity Fair and one of my shoes designed for Stuart Weitzman in New York. The shoes then went on to Chicago (this was a second commission from the designer, to produce chocolate-looking shoes).

Another original shoe design created in 2004

In 2004 I designed a whole series of chocolate looking shoe sculptures.  This was one of my very chocolat-y ones, and yes, it was not easy to create! It is not chocolate but fabric, but I have fooled many with this one. 

My original DELISHOES created in 2004

In 2004 I created a full collection of shoe sculptures. The shoes were on the theme of chocolate.

Here is one of the 26 shoes created. This one was called "Grafitti", made with a real shoe and then I revised it to look like it was made of chocolate. 

My Delishoes in New York, 2005

Here is the boutique of Stuart Weitzman on Madison Avenue in Manhattan New York, year 2005. In the window half of the collection I created for the designer directly modifying his shoes into delicious-looking chocolate Delishoes. 

 The second window display with five other shoes created on his shoes and boots. 

 Madison Avenue and the boutique of Stuart Weitzman.

In 2004 I designed a full collection of  26 shoe sculptures,  delicious looking shoes, that seemed to made from chocolate. Each shoe was a real woman's shoe, mostly high heels but smaller heels as well, some sandals, others closed shoes. Some were leather, cloth, various materials which I then turned into real sculptures that looked like chocolate. The public as well as the media was completely confused as to whether these shoes were really chocolate or not.

I used many many materials to create my collection. I had never done such a project before, but since I had had much experience with materials, was able to construct, build, and modify the many shoes to make up a collection with was called Delishoes, or at the Eurochocolate fair in Perugia, was ChocoDeliShoes.

After this experience I contacted Stuart Weitzman in New York who asked me to design a collection on his marvelous and expensive shoes. He sent me ten different styles which I worked on, mailed back and then had them displayed in windows on Madison Avenue in New York (Manhattan) at the Weitzman boutique and then in Chicago on Michigan Avenue.

The shoes then were shown in various other displays in Italy, and became about 35 shoes in all.
Here is a window display in New York and another in Chicago, year 2005.

Deli'shoes Creations

Last year during the event Fantacity in the center of Perugia, I had a display of my Delishoes - shoe sculptures that really look like they are made of chocolate, but are not.
Here I am next to almost the full collection of them. Some are not on a chocolate these but look like animals, or other sculptural forms.
All exhibited in the marvelous underground Rocca Paolina in the center of Perugia.

Delishoes Primaverile

At Sweet Torgiano Cake Design, I presented the first cake I have ever decorated in this fashion, Delishoes Primaverile (Spring Delishoes). The dummy cake was created by cutting out a model from styrofoam and then decorating all of the pieces with  edible incredients based on powdered sugar, butter, food coloring.
Here are some pictures from the ceremony of the winners, and photos of my shoe in a store window in the town of Torgiano.

Here I am receiving my certificate of partecipation.

We were also given a bottle of wine from Lungarotti.

"Delishoes Primaverile" (Springtime Delishoes) my cake in the store window in Torgiano.

The store window.

Here is the store front from the street.

Me, holding my certificate. 

Delishoes - chocolate egg shoe

Delishoes

Here's my Egg shoe.

I created a large collection of chocolate looking shoes, DELISHOES, then  increased the collection with other more sculptural pieces, some that look like animals, some where the shoe itself is hard to see, or quite elaborately covered.

This is a simple Italian sandal with an Easter touch: a chocolate egg, that isn't really chocolate. 

Sweet Torgiano Cake Design Contest

This is the cake I designed for the first contest at Torgiano, Italy "Sweet Torgiano Cake Design Contest".
If you would like to vote for me visit this link and vote for my cake NUMBER 3.
Thank you!!

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TORGIANO SWEET CAKE DESIGN

Tomorrow, Saturday March 23, on this link.....

http://www.facebook.com/sweettorgiano

voting begins for TORGIANO SWEET CAKE DESIGN contest

I just partecipated in a cake design competition, you can see the link above. My cake is cake number 3. Whoever gets the most votes on Facebook wins a prize, then there will be the voting of the jury as well. If you would like to vote for me, I thank you beforehand. There will be prizes, and lots of  fun for visitors to Torgiano since all cakes will be displayed throughout the town.
Enjoy the site, and if you come to Torgiano, enjoy the walk around town, looking at all the store windows with the cakes inside.

DELISHOES - Shoe Sculptures by Stephanie Seymour

In the year 2004  DELISHOES, 26 individual shoe sculptures were created. Each one is totally different from the next, and the collection was  featured as one of the main events in the

 international chocolate festival  in Perugia. 

Since 2004 other shoes have been created to enrich the collection, as well as a collection exhibited in New York and Chicago.

In this photograph my Delishoes are shown in the Rocca Paolina during the event Fantacity, in Perugia, 2012. 

For information regarding exhibitions of the collection during  fairs, events, fashion shows, please contact me at
seemoreart_4u@yahoo.com

Orange chocolate, one of my original shoe sculptures in the collection "Delishoes", created in 2004.

Fashion nightmare, the first of several shoes that took on a totally new dimension, this one being a bird who is unable to get a decent sleep on a bed of nails and wire, displayed in 
Perugia at various shows.

During the event "Fantacity", my exhibition in the medieval Rocca Paolina, Perugia. 

Children from schools came to visit the show where I displayed about 20 of my Delishoes.

After my first collection of Delishoes, I was commissioned by designer Stuart Weitzman to create directly on his expensive and well-known shoes and boots, another group of shoes that were then displayed in his boutique windows on Madison Avenue in NY and then on Michigan Ave in Chicago.

An article regarding artistic shoes and my leopard shoe which is the homepage of my website www.delishoes.com, www.delishoes.it in the magazine Marie Claire.

An article in the Italian version of Vanity Fair, which includes mention of my shoe sculptures Delishoes.

 SLURP, a military boot on the theme of chocolate

One of a more complicated shoes to create, "Chocolate Sole"

Scarpa della regina (shoe of the queen)