Designer Portrait: Katrien Herdewyn, High-fashion footwear designer

Learn more about : Learn more about Elegnano: Katrien Herdewyn, a shoe designer with a background in engineering, material sciences, and nanotechnology, is blurring the lines between science and fashion. This talented Belgian designer started creating stunning footwear by relying on her traditional craftsmanship skills. That’s why we met up with Katrien to learn more about the passion that drives her in our latest video interview. Katrien Herdewyn’s fascination for shoes started at a very young age. At four years old, Katrien built a shoe shop in front of her garage and spent hours underneath tables in aisles to look at the shoes of people walking by. In 2010 she graduated as a civil engineer with a Master’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Leuven. After her studies, she started a Ph.D. in Sciences, in combination with studies in Footwear Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sint-Niklaas. In 2014, Katrien decided