PARADE: Original 3D Printed Footwear by Oldrich Voyta

What happens when you combine art, sophisticated design, sustainability, and 3D printing? The answer is definitely uniqueness. And unique is also the PARADE collection by the young shoe designer Oldrich Voyta, who presented this collection last year in Paris at the National Theater of Dance, Palais Chaillot. The footwear from the collection was made using 3D printing and sustainable filament by Fillamentum – NonOilen.

With the presentation of the PARADE collection, Oldrich Voyta returns to collaboration with Fillamentum (read more about previous collaborations). It is now an overlap of design that approximates natural sculptural lines that refer to the process of sculpting. As the author says: “Working stone creates dust, which eventually combines with decaying leaves and creates soil. While the waste creates a fertile ground, a design, a sculpture is created, stimulating the observer’s feelings with its aesthetics.” The inspiration of the material was reborn into reality in addition to the connection of 3D technologies. The collaboration with the company Fillamentum material, Nonoilen, created a product, footwear that gives a sculptural impression with its aesthetics but brings functionality through the artfully implemented biomechanics of the foot into the 3D printed footwear. In addition, these shoes printed from Nonoilen material connect its overlap of aesthetics through its 100% decomposability. Made from Malai material and vegetable-tanned leather, the upper is attached to a biodegradable platform-like sole. This brings a new direction in working with 3D printing and its effects on nature.

A collection of 3D printed footwear called “PARADE” was presented in April 2021 amid the lockdown in Paris at the National Theater of Dance, Palais Chaillot. Oldrich Voyta collaborated with the Australian fashion artist Thomas A. Bradley, choreographer Emanuel Gat and director Julia Gat. Thanks to this collaboration, a fashion-art film was created, which will be premiered at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2023. Now this footwear can also be seen in the Czech Republic, specifically in the Permanent Collection of UMPRUM Museum in Brno.