The First Ingredient Is Love

Name: The First Ingredient Is Love
Brand: Adel Fuzik Design
Price: 459.0 USD
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$459.00

The First Ingredient Is Love

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When I was a child, my grandmother always made Lajcsi cake for me — a soft, layered dessert with chocolate, strawberry cream, and vanilla pudding. It was full of love — just like her. Even now, at 84, she radiates flow. She never searched for a special calling or hobby; she simply found joy and meaning in the everyday — in the small tasks around the house and in the way she cared for others. She taught me that without love, there is no flow — and that message became the soul of this sneaker.

The design was inspired by the layers of the Lajcsi dessert — the brown sponge, the strawberry pink, and the vanilla yellow blend softly into one another, just like life itself is made of layers: of memories, love, and perseverance.

The double laces symbolize the duality of the strawberry and vanilla creams — the same way love and dedication only feel complete when they coexist.

On one shoe, I painted my grandmother’s portrait in graffiti style, surrounded by hand-painted words like love and flow. This visual language connects her timeless wisdom to modern street culture, where expression and authenticity matter most. The words and tiny dessert motifs were created using special puff paint, giving them a tactile, almost edible texture — bringing back the softness of the original dessert and the warmth of the memory itself.

With this work, I wanted to connect heritage and performance, tradition and flow, and to show that inspiration doesn’t always come from something grand — sometimes, it’s quietly baked in the warmth of someone’s hands.

It’s a reminder that whether it’s baking, art, or sport, true mastery only happens when it’s done from the heart.

Because my grandmother taught me:

“The first ingredient is always love.”

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