WHY IGNORANCE IS BLISS

When i was designing shoes, the one thing that truly made me stand out was the fact that I hadn’t grown up with high-end fashion influence. If you could imagine during the free-class at London College of fashion, I was sitting in a glass box in a singlet, sawing away at wooden lasts and the girls were outside in the air-condition surrounding the glass box practising drawing.

I knew two things: 1. If everyone was practising drawing and I was practising making — I’d know more about how the shoes actually come out 3D and sit on the foot, 2. The less time I spent seeing what the others saw, the more original my designs could/would be. In-fact I made it one of my rules that I never, ever looked at magazines or women’s shoes — just so that I could keep my designs as original as possible.

My next strategy to maintaining originality was to only derive inspiration for my designs from the most original form of creation, nature. I’d see things in nature, imagine a design, write the design down in words (not draw it) and then come back one month later and create a design from the word’s I’d written. You can see how I went from original inspiration > a description > a re-imagination of the original description. Now we are getting towards securing originality.

Safe to say, my designs were VERY different from the rest of the cohort.

Another example.

There are plenty of examples of people have innovated in industries because they haven’t been primed by the incremental progress. Think about this:

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