making of the shoe
 
a simple tutorial on box-modeling - page 25
   
   
 
Here you can follow how i modeled the bow starting from a tube: used a FFD box, moved vertices in sequence from 1 to 3 , rotated them as shown in position # 4
 
 
 

The last part of laces was modeled as illustrated below:

 
   
 

and here the sequence to model the tip: after selecting the last polygon, i cut it twice using snaps

 
   
 
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7- 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19
 
20 - 21- 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32