STEELETTO IS A COLLABORATION OF OLIVERA AND VERA CAPARA FROM capara_official AND NATALIE VAN LIJSEBETTEN FROM collectifdanvers. 

 STEELETTO IS DESIGN AND CRAFTSMANSHIP COMBINED IN ONE PAIR OF BOOTS. ONE BOOT STYLE IN DIFFERENT EXECUTIONS.

 STEELETTO IS A PRODUCT MADE OUT OF PASSION FOR SHOES AND INNOVATION AND BOLDNESS AND MIX OF CONTRASTING MATERIALS, SUCH AS STEEL AND RUBBER/LEATHER/FABRICS AND RECYCLED USED MATERIALS AND BANAL OBJECTS AND HIGH QUALITY FINISHINGS.

 STEELETTO RESULTS IN THE SHAPE OF THE BOOT AND THE STEEL HEEL WHICH SERVE AS A WHITE CANVAS WHERE THE CONTENT IS FILLED IN INTUITIVELY WITH FOUND OBJECTS, LIVED OBJECTS, AND USED OBJECTS AND MATERIALS AND DEAD STOCKS FROM FASHION BRANDS, INCLUDING CAPARA, ETC. NOW THE BOOTS GET THEIR PERSONALITY, THEIR UNIQUENESS, THEIR VOICE VARYING IN MATERIALS, COLOURS, WEIGHT, OBJECTS, EXECUTIONS, NEEDS AND THEREFOR IN PRICE AS WELL. THE CONCEPT BECOMES INCLUSIVE.

 STEELETTO IS A HAND MADE PRODUCT, A PIECE-UNIQUE, A ONE-OF-A-KIND PRODUCT MADE IN BELGIUM IN THE SHOE ATELIER OF COLLECTIFDANVERS AND A METAL WORKSHOP, BOTH ESTABLISHED IN ANTWERP. 

 STEELETTO IS A HEEL CONSTRUCTION MADE OUT STEEL ATTACHED ON TOP OF THE BOOT WITH 3 VISIBLE SCREWS. THE STEEL COMES IN 2 FINISHINGS, IN “OLD STEEL” AND “SHINY BLACK STEEL”. IN THE FUTURE THERE WILL BE INOX STEEL AS WELL. THERE ARE ALL RUSTPROOF.

 STEELETTO IS PASSION FOR RECUPERATION AND DECONSTRUCTION, SEEING THE BEAUTY IN UNEXPECTED, IN RANDOM AND GIVING IT A NEW MEANING, A NEW LIFE AND WORTH, IS TRANSLATED INTO CAPARA PRODUCTS WHICH ARE INNOVATIVE, FEMININE AND DESIRABLE.

CAPARA

OUR NAMES ARE OLIVERA AND VERA CAPARA, TWIN SISTERS BORN IN SARAJEVO-BOSNIA. WE GREW UP IN GERMANY, NEAR STUTTGART WHERE WE COMPLETED MOST OF OUR EDUCATION FROM GYMNASIUM TO GO ON AND STUDY BIOCHEMISTRY AND LATER CHANGE DIRECTION INTO FASHION. WE VISITED A TECHNICAL FASHION COLLEGE FIRST AND WORKED IN A COMMERCIAL FASHION COMPANY IN STUTTGART BEFORE COMING TO ANTWERP WHERE WE STUDIED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. AFTER GRADUATING WE IMMEDIATELY STARTED WORKING FOR DRIES VAN NOTEN AND LATER WENT ON TO WORK WITH MARTIN MARGIELA HIMSELF AT MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA WHERE WE WERE DESIGNING THE ARTISANAL LINE FOR WOMEN AND MEN. HIM BEING THE REASON WE CHANGED DIRECTION IN OUR EDUCATION IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE. IT WAS AT OUR STAY AT THE MAISON THAT THE ARTISANAL LINE WENT FROM PRET-A-PORTER TO HAUTE COUTURE. AFTER THAT WE AS WELL WORKED WITH RAF SIMONS AT JIL SANDER AND ONLY AFTER THIS EXPERIENCE WE STARTED TO WORK ON OUR OWN LABEL -CAPARA. IN OUR OWN COLLECTIONS WE CONCENTRATED ON ’TAKE LUXURY AND FUCK IT UP’ AS EUGENE RABKIN FROM STYLEZEITGEIST HAD PUT IT IN AN INTERVIEW FROM 2017. WE CONCENTRATED ON ‘INTUITIVE IDEA DEVELOPMENTS AND PATTERN MAKING’. SHAPES AND VOLUMES ESPECIALLY FOR SHOULDER PIECES COMBINED WITH ARTISANAL FABRIC TREATMENTS ARE OUR PASSION. THE COLLECTION WAS SOLD TO SELECTED STORES WORLDWIDE AND LATER THROUGH OUR OWN ONLINE STORE WHERE WE INTRODUCED A COLLECTION DROP SYSTEM AND PRESENTED THE PIECES IN AN UNIQUE AND AUTHENTIC WAY IN VIDEO FORMATS.

TODAY WE WANT TO EXPAND THE WAY WE ARE LOOKING AT US AND TO SEE WHAT THE ESSENCE AND THE CORE IS WE ARE STANDING FOR.

INNOVATION - ARTISANAL - DESIGN - FASHION - BOLDNESS - AUTHENTICITY - SUSTAINABILITY 

OUR CREATIVE VISION IS A FUSION OF TWO PARTICULAR QUALITIES – FASHION AS A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR DEEPER IDENTITY IN A UNIQUE WAY, AND YET ALSO, TO BE PART OF SOMETHING SHARED. UNIQUE AS INDIVIDUALS, AUTONOMOUS YET DEEPLY CONNECTED AND SHARING A DEEP BOND.