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2018.185.10
Title
Meadham Kirchhoff 'Reject Everything' Pink Rubber Tie Up Boots
Date(s)
- 2015 (Creation)
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(2006-2015)
Administrative history
Edward Meadham (b. 1979) and Benjamin Kirchhoff (b. 1978) founded Meadham Kirchhoff in 2006 as a womenswear brand. They had initially shown a menswear collection in 2005 under the label Benjamin Kirchhoff as part of the inaugural Fashion East MAN show at London Fashion Week. Meadham Kirchhoff had NEWGEN sponsorship for seven seasons up until 2010. In 2010 the label won the Emerging Talent Ready-to-Wear award at the British Fashion Awards and were a semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2014. In June 2012, the brand launched their menswear line at London Collections: Men, showing their Spring Summer 2013 collection as part of Fashion East MAN for three seasons. They did not show menswear again until their final runway show in September 2014, which featured both menswear and womenswear. Shortly afterwards they denied press rumours that the company was about to close, but mounting financial debts forced the company to shut down in September 2015. In June 2016, a campaign was launched to raise £15,000 to buy back around fifty items from their archive to be donated to museums.
Sources: British Vogue; Dazed; Drapers; Middle East North Africa Financial Network.
Sources: British Vogue; Dazed; Drapers; Middle East North Africa Financial Network.
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Pale pink rubber boots with hot pink inners made up of six loose sections threaded together with silver eyelets and flourescent yellow shoelaces. They have a chunky rose pink rubber sole which has been moulded into a wavy block design featuring the MK logo. The tongue extends down to the toe and has four eyelets at the toe and eight further up to allow for four rows of laces with two rows at the toe. The yellow laces have a pink and blue fleck running through them and they wrap around the leg securing the four separate rubber pieces to the leg with two final eyelets at the top of the tongue. There are four eyelets at the heel of the boot with round plastic pale pink release toggles securing the ends of the laces. The separate pieces of the boots allow for mulitple styling options and they were styled in multiple ways for the final Meadham Kirchhoff Spring Summer 2015 collection, some with the laces wrapped around fully, some with the pieces totally loose and some with a combination of both.
Country of Design: England
Country of Design: England
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Rubber
Colour/Print: pale pink, hot pink
Details: rubber, moulded soles, threading, eyelets, shoe laces, toggles
Label: No label but Meadham Kirchhoff engraved into sole.
Colour/Print: pale pink, hot pink
Details: rubber, moulded soles, threading, eyelets, shoe laces, toggles
Label: No label but Meadham Kirchhoff engraved into sole.