Designer/artist Sebastian Errazruiz teamed up with footwear specialists at Melissa to produce 12 Shoes for 12 Lovers for a pop-up debut of 3D-printed "shoe sculptures" at Art Basel Miami. The collection was inspired by twelve of Errazruiz's former girlfriends or lovers.

Errazruiz will be showing these pieces birthed from CAD drawings and high-tech equipment rather than hands-on modeling. "He wanted to create shoe sculptures that could just as easily pass as a single exclusive valuable art work or a potential molded mass consumption product," studio manager Shani Ha explained. "To mix a little 1% and 99% demographics on the same project from its inception."

Each of the sets has a generic nickname—"The Boss," "The Jetsetter," "Ice Queen"—and an alias to protect identities. Check out the accompanying artsy, almost-nude pics, and read a bit of erotic short (non)fiction on his site, and thus parse one man's exploration into memory, relationships, and sexual escapades.

[MoCo Loco]