Tutor Bio: Aki Choklat

Aki holds an MA in Footwear from the Royal College of Art and has produced his own footwear label for several years under Jubaki selling in Europe and the US.

He recently launched a concept range of men's shoes and bags under his own name  - Aki Choklat.  The label is sold worldwide by numerous fashion retailers, including Barneys, Harvey Nichols, Takashimaya and Dover Street Market. He also lectures internationally at universities and colleges such as Footwear Design at De Montfort University in Leicester as well as most notably the highly acclaimed Polimoda fashion school in Florence. He acts as a consultant on trend predictions and design development strategy for forerunners in the global footwear market.

Aki has written two books including 'Shoe Design', co-authored by Rachael Jones and published by Daab in 2009, and 'Footwear Design', which will be released by Laurence King Publishing in March, 2012.

Browse Aki's work from his website http://www.akichoklat.com/