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What could be more exciting than 100 more shoes?! The Metropolitan Museum of Art, our favorite museum anywhere, has produced the book of our dreams! A history of shoes! We don't remember this course offering in any school we went to, and so this book is a total must! If you are half as obsessed as someone we know with what you are putting on your piggies, you will have a high degree of appreciation for this gorgeous and informative compilation of footwear throughout the ages. Did you know that Louis XIV was the one that declared red heels/soles were for his noble court? (1690-1700).
MUST SEE SHOES IN THIS BOOK ACCORDING TO PEACHY
*Evening green slippers American p. 24-25
*French evening shoes p. 34
*Ferragamo purple suede and gold metallic with the wedge heel p. 75
*Model No. 266 Elegant, sophisticated moccasin p. 82
*American Platform Sandals p. 95
*Peacock Evening Shoe p. 127
*Dalmatian Boots p. 128-9 (Cruella did you see these?)
*Kickoff shoes p. 146-7
*Car shoes p.152-3
*American Platform Sandals p. 95
*Peacock Evening Shoe p. 127
*Dalmatian Boots p. 128-9 (Cruella did you see these?)
*Kickoff shoes p. 146-7
*Car shoes p.152-3
This book is a total joy and the photography is phenomenal, the descriptions are just right, and it makes a perfect gift for everyone that is in love with shoes. And that is probably YOU, if you are reading Whom You Know.
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Selecting just 100 shoes to highlight from the 2,500 in
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art’s Costume Institute collection was no easy task. Those that are featured range from the 16th to the 21st century and paint a vivid picture of how styles have changed—sometimes radically—over the years.
They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th to the 17th century and by Manchu Chinese women in the 1800s. In the late 1930s, Salvatore Ferragamo introduced a modern version of the platform shoe, and updated versions appeared in the 1970s and 1990s.
Beautifully designed and produced, 100 Shoes presents examples of fashionable footwear in a range of styles, from slippers to sandals to stilettos. Among them are shoes designed by Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Roger Vivier, and Vivienne Westwood. Images of the shoes are accompanied by informative text and enhanced by works of art, contemporary photos, and portraits of designers.
Sure to spark the imaginations of anyone interested in fashion and design, 100 Shoes details how women have used these essential fashion accessories to elevate their style, stature, and status throughout the centuries.
The Costume Institute
The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than 35,000 costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries. Now the largest, most comprehensive costume collection in the world, The Costume Institute began as the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937, and merged with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to form The Costume Institute in 1946. In 1959, it became a full-fledged curatorial department. In January 2009, The Brooklyn Museum transferred their renowned costume collection to The Costume Institute, and the combined collections now offer an unrivaled timeline of Western fashion history.
The Costume Institute’s Harold Koda (Curator in Charge) and Andrew Bolton (Curator) create one or more special exhibitions each year, which have included Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century (2004); AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (2006); Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (2008); and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011).
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
TITLE: 100 Shoes: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
EDITOR: Harold Koda; introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker
ISBN: 978-0-300-17240-9 PB-Flexibound
DETAILS: $24.95, 232 pp., 191 color + 18 b/w illustrations
PUBLICATION DATE: October 18, 2011
“To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give reality to one’s dreams.” —Roger Vivier
