From shoe design to shoe artist: Introducing Mark Schwartz

Working alongside Roger Vivier is bound to provide many of us with creative inspiration, but one man has turned that inspiration into art. Introducing Mark Schwartz, a shoe designer himself and artist who has cultivated a business out of shoe renderings. His other mentor is Andy Warhol, whom he says was very encouraging of his passion to paint footwear.

"A lot of people thought I was crazy to paint shoes, but he didn't and I was very impressed by that. It was not until years after his passing that I realised what he was saying to me," Schwartz recently told Dazed Digital.

Fancy owning a piece yourself? Then click here to check out more of his amazing work.

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