Full Interview — Muse.World
Exploring Design Insights with Footwear Designer Solvita Melne
Q: Congratulations on winning the London Design Awards! Can you introduce yourself and share about what inspired you to pursue design as a career?
Thank you very much. It is a great honour for me to receive this recognition from the London Design Awards.
In August last year, I finally said out loud that I wanted to become involved in shoe design. But when I look back, I understand that this path started much earlier.
I am a mother of three, a finance professional, a numerologist and now also a shoe designer. These roles may seem very different, but together they have shaped the way I see design. Motherhood taught me strength, responsibility and emotional depth. More than 20 years of work as a chief accountant in an international company gave me structure, discipline and precision. Numerology opened another layer for me — the symbolic language of personality, intuition and inner potential.
As a child, I often sketched clothing designs in my notebooks. When I went with my mother to a seamstress, I always had my own vision of how I wanted to look and what I wanted to make different. At 15, I dreamed of becoming a seamstress, but I was afraid to choose that path. Years passed, but the desire to create never disappeared.
Later, my attention turned to footwear. I was never interested in ordinary shoes. I wanted shoes with details, emotion and character — shoes that carry a story and give a woman something more than just a beautiful silhouette.
"This became the foundation of SOLVITA ICON, my first footwear collection. Each design tells the story of movement, strategy, choice and feminine visibility — through the chess knight, playing-card symbols, chessboard geometry and hand-painted details."
For me, footwear is not just something we wear. It is an attitude, a personal symbol and a way for a woman to stand in her power.
