HELEN KIRKUM STUDIO

In collaboration with designer Helen Kirkum

Helen Kirkum is an footwear designer based in East London, she founded the studio in 2017 to create and showcase her reworking of discarded and recycled sneakers, the craftsmanship of handmade footwear, with an emphasis of human agency and stories. The sneakers become wearable collages that fuse the process of wearing and making, challenging our visions of materiality and newness, to create something we recognise but which we are not used to seeing.