About Tracey Neuls

Tracey Neuls has, over the last 9 years, established herself as a vital force in contemporary design. Since graduating from Cordwainers, she has built a reputation for innovative yet idiosyncratic shoe making. With a string of awards under her belt (including New Generation, Design Week Benchmark, and Royal Society of Arts), she continues season upon season to present mould-breaking collections - unique yet always distinctively Tracey Neuls.

Tracey is the author of TN_29 and signature Tracey Neuls. Like Eileen Gray last century (to whom she has been compared), her work shuns mainstream fads, opting for a more timeless approach. Each shoe bears the mark of a questioning mind and instinctive feel for form and material. She describes herself as sponge-like - attracted to the small things in life. Fugitive moments that have inspired, forms and textures she has moulded or admired, re-surface in her collections. If you like playing detective, the details worked into her designs - maps imprinted into the sole, the upper pulled down over a heel, a fastening that mimics a stationery clasp - are clues to be discovered.  

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The beauty of Neuls' work lies in her questioning of the expected, ignoring the rules and taking inspiration from a vast range of sources
New Shoes, Contemporary Footwear Design