Noritaka Tatehana

Noritaka Tatehana (born 1985 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese shoe designer born into a family that ran a public bathhouse.

Tatehana handcrafts each step of the manufacturing process of his shoes, all of which are collection pieces.

His futuristic shoes, which re-think the notion of "high heels", are unique in both decoration and style, as they are often heel-less platform shoes.

His shoes come in a wide variety of colours and patterns, from black to silver, and from fiery red to gold.

[1] In October and November 2019, the Portland Japanese Garden is showing Tatehana's shoes and other work in his first US exhibition.