INTERNATIONAL FASHIONZ

Just when you thought shoes couldn’t get any cheesier than Crocs, some students over at  Bath Spa University  in the UK make a whole line of shoes out of the actual smelly stuff! Somerset cheese manufacturer,  Pilgrims Choice , enlisted 50 first-year co-eds from the  Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors  program to design the fermented footwear as part of a national “cheese couture” competition. We were especially intrigued by Lisa Dillon’s “Jimmy Cheese” platform wedges, which she cobbled together from cheddar and bread. A stale cheese sandwich, in fact, served as part of the sole. And the heel? A sculpted block of the finest West Country cheddar.