Designer Confidential: Not your average shoe

Designer Confidential highlights the work of SU's greatest fashion assest: its student designers.   

Max Britt has been carrying these shoes around for the past two weeks, embroidering whenever she gets the chance. 

Max Britt's tricked-out Ked.

She added a pop of color to the average Ked shoe for her project titled “Three Week Long Project.” 

Her inspiration: a Mika album cover. The project required Britt to incorporate skills from her Intro to Fibers class to embroider plain white Keds with French Knots. So, she used pencil to create the designs on each side of the shoes with the same color scheme and techniques. 

Britt transformed the bold array of colors featured on the Mika album cover into a wild design. She wanted the shoes to be eye-catching...and they are.

The cover of Mika's album, "Life in Cartoon Motion."

The shoes directly relate to the Mika cover, but Britt said MIA is also a one of her inspirations, not only for this particular project, but also in her life.  

Although she says that she is not going to be wearing these rocked-out Keds, Britt said the shoes have been a “learning tool” for her because the “Three Week Long Project” is just one of the many things Britt has going on in her daily life at SU. She is also one of the leading members in the fashion club.
 

The Dream Job: Working as a head designer for Ralph Lauren.

This Designer’s Confidential: “Currently I’m wearing Nantucket Reds from J.Crew… they’re men’s.” She has an obsession with men’s clothing. 

Why You Should Look Out For Her: After interning for Jill Stuart and Ducky Brown at this past fall’s New York Fashion Week, Britt’s goals are set high and her dreams are big.