This book is a great way to get started creating your own custom sneakers. Up your creative game as you learn quick and easy ways to turn a pair of regular trainers into one-of-a-kind works of art. 1000 inspiring sneaker designs and 18 step-bystep tutorials will help you create your own projects that reflect your personal tastes. By mastering the basics along with some design skills, you'll soon have the tools and techniques you need to design and paint custom sneakers with style and soul. Street, pop, fluor, metal and camouflage are just some of the contemporary patterns touched on. Detailed illustrations that go with the texts give you an idea of what your kicks will look like after you've created them. The book is ideal for sneakers fans who enjoy customizing their own clothes and asserting their individuality, fashion designers who look to customized sneakers as a source of inspiration and fashion lovers in general. Take your love of sneakers to a fun new level learning how to create cool shoes that are as unique as you are.

Claudia Ausonia Palazio attended the 1st Art Academy in Rome (Italy) and then obtained a two-year degree from the IED in Fashion (1988-1989). She subsequently began working as an assistant costume designer for Bonizza Giordani Aragno, fashion researcher, curator and historian. In the meantime, she attended the Accademia di Alta Moda e Arte del costume Koefia, the renowned Koefia International Haute Couture Academy (Rome) (1991-1994). At the end of her course, she was asked to join Koefias staff. She has been working as a fashion design lecturer since 1996.