DIY Shoes: Moon Life by United Nude

These DIY shoes come flat-packed and ready for you to assemble and wear, with interchangeable uppers for a custom look every time.
The “Moon Life” project, initiated by Spanish performance-artist Alicia Framis, is all about space travel and the speculation of future living in space. She invited a select group of artists, architects and designers to create futuristic, radical and even political but humane concepts for the lunar environment. United Nude was invited to design a shoe suitable for outer space.
United Nude decided to create an elegant high-heeled shoe that would be appropriate for space’s temperature and pressure, with the ability to function well in a gravity-rich environment. They also decided that one may take a far journey into space, it would be best to design something easily packable and transportable. Therefore, the flat-packed concept arose.



The shoes’ base is made from flat carbon fiber pieces, molded foot-bed pieces and 3-dimensional sole pieces that simply slot into each other. These parts are all adjoined by a thin wire span on the sides. The upper of the shoe is a lace with 2 leather pieces. The assembly takes no longer than 10 minutes for each shoe.




United Nude is developing a final version of this product that will be available for purchase in very limited numbers at moon-life.org, as well as at selected museum gift-shops around the world and at the brand’s website unitednude.com. Maybe one day you’ll take them with you into space?





















IKEA keeps flashing in my head while looking at this shoe.