Home Preface Bottom

The 10 Most Wanted initiative has now ended and the website is being archived for posterity.
The project partners are grateful to Nesta for funding 10 Most Wanted and thank all those who contributed their knowledge and opinions.
Do keep in touch by visiting the website of the Museum of Design in Plastics at http://www.modip.ac.uk.

Zhero gravity football boots

Eye-ctaching design and a relatively recent breakthough. Surely someone knows whose idea it was to rid football boots of laces?

Case number - AIBDC : 005768

A pair of white and blue Lotto Zhero Gravity football boots. They come with an accessories pack including spare studs (12 in total in three different sizes), a special stud key which doubles as a shoe horn and 2 pairs of interchangeable insoles (one pair already in the shoe). These were the first laceless football boots to be manufactured.
View more images on the MoDiP site

Designer	unknown - Wanted
Manufacturer	Lotto
Country	Italy
Date	2007
Dimensions	length 270 mm, width 90 mm, depth 120 mm.
Materials	plastic, Pebax (trade name), polyether block amides, TPU, Thermoplastic polyurethane (foam), PU, PUR
Method	unknown - Wanted
Colours	white, blue

Rights: Images on this site are for non-commercial, educational use only. MoDiP has done its utmost to obtain clearance from all IPR holders before adding images to this catalogue, if you believe that any image has been used without permission please contact us on modip@aub.ac.uk.

Join the hunt at: 10mostinvolved

Facebook Feed

Susan Lambert

05/02/14

Zhero Gravity football boots: AIBDC : 005768 No laces so how do they stay on and whose idea was it?

Add your comment

Susan Lambert

06/02/14

Zhero Gravity football boots: AIBDC : 005768 No laces so how do they stay on and whose idea was it?

Rupert Radcliffe

06/02/14

Here's the start: http://www.zherogravity.lottosport.com/en/zhero-gravity-ultra

Rupert Radcliffe

06/02/14

First developed in a lab in 2002, it says here: http://www.soccerbible.com/news/football-boots/archive/2012/05/31/lotto-zhero-gravity-ii-100-football-boots-risk-red-white.aspx

Rupert Radcliffe

06/02/14

But it would appear they were first marketed in 2006.

Susan Lambert

11/02/14

Really useful websites, Rupert, thank you - and this link: http://www.zherogravity.lottosport.com/en/less-is-more shows the whole family of shoes from 2003. What we are looking for is the designer but is that becoming an outmoded concept? Clearly these are designed by a team and the team is the Lotto Zhero Gravity team. Perhaps we need to be satified with that rather than finding the individuals from which it is formed. Any comments?

Rupert Radcliffe

11/02/14

Let's drop them a line.

Susan Lambert

11/02/14

Good idea. Shall I do that Rupert, or would you like me to? I am putting together an exhibition about the project in which we will be featuring images of the people who have contributed. Would you be happy for one of you to be included, and if so, could you send me one please? On 11 Feb 2014, at 13:12, Rupert Radcliffe wrote: >

Susan Lambert

13/04/14

Email sent to Zhero Gravity on 26/03/2014 but no reply to date.

Add your comment

Follow on Facebook ...