CELINE Colorful Shoes, Mysterious Hand-Made Shoemaking Technology [Picture And Text]

This uniquely designed shoe is chic and stylish and incorporates elements of the sport, inspired by the first pair of sandals worn by early Europeans.

Since the 2006-2007 autumn and winter, CELINE creative director Ivana Omazic has been keen to integrate her ancestors' style into the shoes that she wears everyday, so as to pay tribute to her motherland.

The first season is the high heels. The second season is short boots and high heels. The young Croatia creative director succeeds in endowing Opanka with a luxurious and stylish style while continuing its long manufacturing process and tradition.

On the banks of Padova, the CELINE workshop is trying to turn all the new ideas of Ivana Omazic into shoe design into reality.

Every season, hundreds of sketches are interpreted, moulds and models are produced, and, without violating the important principles of ensuring the comfort of shoemaking, it is as close as possible to the manuscripts of creative directors.

In order to perfect every pair of shoes, it is difficult to count the samples and time.

For the Opanka model, the whole production process becomes more complex, because soles are a key part of shoe design.

Even before thinking about every season's vamp, you must first use traditional methods to make sole.

Craftsmen in the vicinity of Bologna still have the technology of making skins into perfect leather.

The quality of tanning is very critical because it determines the success of Opanka soles.

The thickness of the sole will be systematically controlled between 4 and 5 millimeters before any minor machining starts.

The manufacturing process of Opanka sole includes the following 5 steps:

First, soak the leather in water for 60 to 90 minutes.

Next, put it outside for 24 hours of partial drying.

After that, the heat Union gives Opanka sole unique shape.

The leather which is still slightly wet is put into the press tool one by one. The rubber model and the aluminum pressure plate used in the press are different from each half of the shoe size.

In the process of hot pressing, the pressure plate relaxes the leather fiber to a certain extent and is then pressed into the model, thus creating the unique shape of the Opanka sole.

The final drying process outside the mold is usually followed for several days.