WME OPERATIONS — The Crossing. West Meet East.

PROLOGUE

WME

WEST MEET EAST

WME

A MEETING OF TWO WORLDS

THE CROSSING / 2.0

01 / THE SIGNAL

WEST MEET EAST

A rim of warm light reveals part of the original WME heel

OUT OF THE DARK.

SOMETHING
IS COMING.

A PRESENCE IN THE DARK.

02 / THE ARRIVAL

A NEW PRESENCE

The original WME heel and sculpted sole emerge through smoke

THE
ARRIVAL.

THE MOMENT BEFORE.

03 / THE FIRST LINE

DESIGN STUDY / 01

EVERY FORM
BEGINS WITH
A LINE.

Supplied design artwork showing a pencil tracing the first footwear lines
AN IDEA, TAKING FORM.

IDEA / LINE / INTENTION

04 / FORM TAKES SHAPE

DESIGN STUDY / 02

FORM
TAKES SHAPE.

Original WME design sketch exploring heel, proportion and outsole form

DESIGN.
RESEARCH.

IDENTITY.

Authentic photographic detail of the WME heel
FROM THOUGHT TO FORM.

THE DETAIL IS THE BEGINNING.

05 / BENEATH THE SURFACE

THREE POINTS OF VIEW

BENEATH
THE SURFACE.

01 / 03

FORM

SCULPTED GEOMETRY

02 / 03

STRUCTURE

LAYERED EXPRESSION

03 / 03

TEXTURE

DETAIL, AT EVERY SCALE.

ONLY A GLIMPSE.

FORM / STRUCTURE / TEXTURE

06 / ORIGIN / JAPAN

A POINT OF DEPARTURE

The supplied WME Torii artwork in mist above still water

A DISTINCT DNA
FROM JAPAN.

JAPANESE CREATIVITY.
EUROPEAN SPIRIT.

WME was born from the meeting of two worlds: Japanese aesthetic sensibility and European creative energy.

Contemporary forms, material research and attention to proportion give the collection a strong identity.

STILLNESS, BEFORE THE CROSSING.

07 / THE CROSSING

WEST MEET EAST

THE CROSSING

01 / JAPAN

JAPANESE
CREATIVITY.

Japanese architectural illustration from WME Focus

A DISTINCT POINT OF VIEW.

02 / EUROPE

EUROPEAN
SPIRIT.

European architectural illustration from WME Focus

A NEW HORIZON.

DIFFERENT WORLDS.

ONE
LANGUAGE.

WME

08 / WME OPERATIONS

THE NEXT CHAPTER

Supplied WME exhibition concept with a partially obscured shoe in a lit cylinder

WME OPERATIONS

WME

OPERATIONS

A NEW SNEAKER CULTURE BEGINS.

DESIGN. RESEARCH. IDENTITY.

WME

OPERATIONS

COMING SOON

WME OPERATIONS

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