Del Toro x Typoe Shoe Launch

Photography by Chelsea Olson ; PHOTOS: Nathan Valentine on May 1st, 2013 in Culture, Editorials, Fashion

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Miami Beach, FL – April 26, 2013 – What do you get when the artist-of-the-moment teams up with the hottest shoes at the moment? The freshest footwear to hit the market: Del Toro x TYPOE limited edition shoes, now available to add instant coolness to your feet. Typoe, a Miami-based artist and co-founder of Primary Flight, has joined forces with Matthew Chevallard, owner of local “it” shoe brand Del Toro, to create a limited edition wingtip that can be worn by both men and women. These two young creatives have come up with a spring time style perfect for the vibrant Miami crowd and anyone looking to add a splash of color to their look. The limited edition wingtip style is now available online and at the Del Toro boutique in Wynwood. The Webster is stocking two styles, as they feature the original Del Toro x TYPOE collaboration as well as a special edition exclusively made for the very trendy boutique on South Beach.

Friday night kicked off the official launch of the collaboration at an invite-only event at The Webster. Everyone got to see the the two new styles for themselves first hand at the launch, with some even purchasing the first pairs to hit shelves. Cocktails were sipped as friends and guests got to talk shoes with Chevallard, Typoe, and founder of Spinello Projects and longtime collaborator with Typoe, Anthony Spinello. See what else these cool, creative minds have to say about the collaboration below.

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Typoe: It was kind of a natural fit. We just started hanging out, and it just happened. [Matt]’s really cool. We have a similar vision and direction we’re going in. He was like ‘Dude, let’s do something rad!’ and I was like ‘Yeah!’ So I submitted this, and he loved it. We talked to The Webster, they wanted their own color scheme, and it just worked out. Everything was really natural and fun.

Matt Chevallard & Typoe

Matt Chevallard: The Artist Series was influential and appropriate for our move into Wynwood and the next development stage we were at, which was moving into offices and becoming a more mature company. So we just moved our headquarters to Wynwood, and The Artist Series kind of made sense. It went with the way I wanted to develop the line in a diversified, unique way. Artists embody a lot of unique identities, and that translates well in footwear.

Anthony Spinello, Matt Chevallard, & Typoe

Matt Chevallard, Anthony Spinello, & Typoe

Anthony Spinello: I think the collaboration is very smart. I think it’s fresh. I’m not surprised that two young, artistic, forward-thinking guys collaborated on a pretty fresh, new shoe together. Like-minded people often find themselves working together. Typoe and I have been working together for almost eight years now, so I’m really happy about the collaboration.

Anthony Spinello

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Typoe: I think art and fashion, even music, they’re all related. We all hang out anyway. We’re all in the same scene and friends; it’s less of a business thing where we set up a serious meeting first. It’s more like we’re just hanging out and say ‘Hey, let’s make something together because we just love what we do’.

Matt Chevallard: I’m excited to team up with one of my favorite Miami-based artists, Typoe. The floral print he designed brings a fresh look to the classic wingtip, while creating a whimsical approach to the arts that is classic yet innovative.

Matt Chevallard: I think they’re casual- to each their own. Everyone wears their shoes differently, in different contexts, and thats what I strive to do: create unique footwear for any kind of walk of life.

Typoe: I like the colorful one. The other one is The Webster Edition. This is more my edition I suppose. I’m just a color whore- I like colors and bright flowers.

Typoe: They’re all printed the same way. I came up with it by spray painting on canvas first, then I did a high res scan, and then we printed it. We tried a couple different ways of how it would look, and then we had it printed. We were happy with it. I did some pink stitching throughout the whole shoe to give it a nice little detail. I just wanted it to be an abstract floral, not too literal with flowers everywhere, but just to give you the feel of it.

Typoe: Each shoe comes with a few different options for laces too- you can mix it up and create your own look.

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Anthony Spinello, Matt Chevallard, & Typoe

Typoe: This is a series entitled “Bust” because it’s a bust- when you take a mold of someone from the chest up- and then it’s a bust in the sexual sense of the word. I haven’t found a way to put it gently but yeah, that’s what’s happening here.