CELINE Colorful Shoes Reshaping Traditional Shoemaking Technology

Interlaced multicolored leather stripes with super heels, as well as those with no recognition, CELINE's Opanka sandals are at the forefront of the 2008 spring and summer trend.

This uniquely designed shoe is chic and stylish and incorporates elements of the sport, inspired by the first pair of sandals worn by early Europeans.

Since the autumn and winter of 2006-2007, CELINE creative director IvanaOmazic has been keen to integrate her ancestral style into this everyday wear shoe, so as to pay tribute to her motherland.

The first season is the high heels. The second season is short boots and high heels. The young Croatia creative director succeeds in endowing Opanka with a luxurious and stylish style while continuing its long manufacturing process and tradition.

If Venice is known to the world for its distinctive palaces, architecture and climate, LaSerenissima's surrounding areas are highly respected by luxury experts for professional leather and footwear technology.

On the banks of Padova, the CELINE workshop is trying to pform all the new ideas of IvanaOmazic's shoe design into reality.

Every season, hundreds of sketches are interpreted, moulds and models are produced, and, without violating the important principles of ensuring the comfort of shoemaking, it is as close as possible to the manuscripts of creative directors.

In order to perfect every pair of shoes, it is difficult to count the samples and time.

For the Opanka model, the whole production process becomes more complex, because soles are a key part of shoe design.

Even before thinking about every season's vamp, you must first use traditional methods to make sole.

Opanka soles are made from top glossy cowhide.

Craftsmen in the vicinity of Bologna still have the technology of making skins into perfect leather.

The quality of tanning is very critical because it determines the success of Opanka soles.

The thickness of the sole will be systematically controlled between 4 and 5 millimeters before any minor machining starts.