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Weekly updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Awards The designer also mentioned that her sandwich slippers were made out of at least 70 per cent upcycled leather pieces she sourced from a factory based in the UK. For footwear and accessory designer Anna Melegh , her interest in bread shoes stemmed from an evergreen fascination with the idea of continuous production and consumption of objects, food and people. “I started to question why things that should last, do not, and those which shouldn’t , actually do,” Melegh told SCREENSHOT, highlighting how she has created a pair of bread shoes and sandwich slippers that were both part of her MA Footwear collection at London College of Fashion . When it comes to comfort, cushioning may well make the wearer feel good. However, whether it can help prevent injury is another matter.

In this episode I speak to experts to weigh up the evidence. Are barefoot shoes the best thing since sliced bread? Or just marketing BS?

4. Improved performance doesn't mean improved fitness

Blue also pointed out a particular element in her work that confronts what’s expected from her as a multifaceted woman and, consequently, releases socially-repressed desires—challenging what being a ‘capable’ mother and a dedicated artist actually means. As a mother, I tell my child to not play with his food. [But] when he’s sleeping, I play with food in a defying gesture of what entails to be a responsible or perfect parent or artist,” she explained. “I grew up watching my mum challenging the traditional gender stereotype that a woman belongs in the kitchen. I follow these memories with my take on creating works that seem like they are domestic (yet deliberate) accidents with subtle humour: ‘Oops! Look what happened in the kitchen…’.” Had to pull up with the loafers to prom 🍞 #breadshoes #foryou #prom #bread #party ♬ Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet The Alphafly shoes have a carbon fibre plate or stiffening plate that changes the dynamic at the next stage of the running motion – rolling the foot forward and over the big toe joint and pushing off from the toes. These plates maximise the amount of energy that’s pushing the foot forward. The combination of this propulsion and the saved energy are "significant enough to add a small benefit to athletes that are looking to run faster, particularly at high speeds". News from Dezeen Events Guide, a listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world. Plus occasional updates. Dezeen Awards China

And what about children? Listener Zoe already wears barefoot shoes herself but wants to know if they might be good for her son, too. Paying more to prevent injury may be a grey area, but performance is another matter. Sports technologist Professor Mike Caine explains that in the shoes worn by the likes of Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge, the heel strike – the point at which the runner first hits the ground – is losing the wearer less energy. Virtually indistinguishable, right? While the comical slippers are styled like two fluffy loaves of bread that just came out of the oven, they actually sport a cotton interior, velvet exterior and foam base for optimal padding. Wear-resistant and easy to wash, the creation hit it off almost instantly on the internet as it evolved into the perfect choice for gag gifting and comfort cravers.For the uninitiated, the term ‘bread shoes’ might sound pretty straightforward: an edible and (questionably) wearable trend where you cut up loaves of bread and don them as footwear. Well, that’s what I thought too until I interviewed a bunch of enthusiasts who have debuted their own take on the trend over the years. There’s more to bread shoes than what meets the eye, to say the yeast . As a visual artist, I use homemade bread as my main sculptural material, my language,” she told SCREENSHOT, adding how the medium, in all its forms, shapes and flavours, carries an abundance of cultural and religious connections for her. “My childhood memories of my mother’s freshly-baked bread are echoed in my own experience as a solo parent. The same arms and hands that are raising a child are kneading the dough, caressing it, shaping it and handing it over to the world to continue its journey of growth and subsequent decay.” For your average recreational runner who isn't bothered about running as fast as they possibly can, I don't think it's worth spending more to get up to the carbon fibre plate type technologies," advises Mike. "But is that innovation genuine? Yes, it is. Athletes were complaining that it just simply wasn't fair, that they weren't competing on an even playing field. And that tells you all you need to know."