“Less is more” is the much-quoted maxim of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Modernist architect famed for stripping buildings down to the most minimal of elements until they appear to float on thin air. It’s a phrase that has been borrowed by Neous, a shoe brand borne from a collaboration between shoe designer Alan Buanne and former Harper’s Bazaar editor, Vanissa Antonious. Friends for more than a decade, the duo have created a line of shoes that eschew traditional heel shapes in favour of spherical, conical or cylindrical heels. Fashioned from wood and Perspex, the effect is one of weightlessness and minimalist elegance.