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10 inch elephant-dung heels

INSA retraced the footsteps Chris Ofili made over 15 years ago and sourced dung from the same family of elephants that produced the dung used in Chris’s infamous paintings of the nineties.

http://www.insa-heels.com

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Women's shoes have long since mutated from clothing to a more fetish and status symbol. To push the non-functionality and non-ability to the extreme, Svenja Ritter has begun to make structures from silver and metal on the inner soles of her high heeld sculptured shoes. So they are also prohibitive and get a very torture character...

Material: metal, beads, glass and wax.

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Victorian boot cameo necklace


This necklace is especially designed for the Hermitage Museum Amsterdam. It's avaibalbe in the museumshop.

The cameo is hand cut in Italy by the design of Nadine Kieft.

Material: silver, fresh water pearls and satin.

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Some of the celebrated designers invited by Warner Brothers and Swarovski to give Dorothy’s ruby red slippers a 21st century makeover included Stuart Weitzman, Alberta Ferretti, Botkier, Diane von Furstenberg, Giuseppe Zanotti, Jimmy Choo, L.A.M.B. by Gwen Stefani, Manolo Blahnik, Moschino, Oscar de la Renta, Roger Vivier and Sergio Rossi. They were granted creative license and access to unlimited CRYSTALLIZED™ — Swarovski elements to re-imagine Dorothy’s design with their own modern vision of the sparkling Ruby Slipper. [keywords] => [thumbnail] => StuartWeitzman_t2.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/StuartWeitzman_t2.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => StuartWeitzman_t2.jpg [path_original] => files/StuartWeitzman_t2.jpg [filename_original] => StuartWeitzman_t2.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [4] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 864 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Otazu [year] => 2008 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => sandal [focus] => instep,toe [colour_backup] => [colour] => FFFFFF [material] => beads,jewellery [usage] => [sex] => [style] => chic,glamorous [description] => Shoes designed for Rodrigo Otazu. A jewellery designer who lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Who displays a glittering talent; Otazu can turn his hand and eye to a wide range of style items and the finished result always carries the distinctive signature of a designer who has an intensely personal touch and a fiercely creative vision. [keywords] => [thumbnail] => RenevandenBerg-t4.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/RenevandenBerg-t4.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => RenevandenBerg-t4.jpg [path_original] => files/RenevandenBerg-t4.jpg [filename_original] => RenevandenBerg-t4.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [5] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 760 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Tarba [year] => 2007 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => slipper [focus] => instep [colour_backup] => [colour] => 333333 [material] => beads,leather,rubber [usage] => [sex] => [style] => minimal [description] => Based of early rendition of footwear dating back to the earliest moments of footwear development. The mix of neon rubber helps to bring a traditional, handmade look up to date and more modern. [keywords] => [thumbnail] => Rachel-Mallory-t1.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/Rachel-Mallory-t1.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => Rachel-Mallory-t1.jpg [path_original] => files/Rachel-Mallory-t1.jpg [filename_original] => Rachel-Mallory-t1.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [6] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 643 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Fish open grey [year] => 2006 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => sandal [focus] => ankle,instep,laces [colour_backup] => [colour] => 666666,999999 [material] => beads,fabric,leather [usage] => [sex] => [style] => experimental [description] =>

These shoes are designed for the winter 2008 collection, by Dutch fashiondesigner Ilja Visser.

Material: Carp leather.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Lucrezia Borgia
First of all this exhibition talks about the collective imaginary, better all that passing through the filters of mind stays inside with no way out. They are details, memory impressions, anything that hits our imagination with no reversibility. They are common places, not always the truth but popular beliefs brought to us by History, with its mysteries tied to fragmentary and inaccurate sources that we catch in aspects such as legends or itching details, that are the most difficult to unveil. Sometimes happens that the guilts of parents fall upon the children, as for Lucrezia Borgia. She never poisoned anyone, she has never been incestuous, she was just woman of her time, with a father that was a centralizer, a boss, an intrigante and a sanguinary man. A brother, Caesar, that killed her husband (however, chosen by his father) the only one that she was really in love with, Alfonso d’Aragona, for reasons of power. In spite of this, I create her sandal which Is based on what everybody associates to the name of Lucrezia: poison. Her heel is a little vial of poison (before someone realized… actually it is a graduated plastic tube for urine). For this I beg her pardon! Lucrezia was a cultured woman, that perfectly understood different languages. She felt a great reciprocated passion, for Bembo, one of the most famous writers of that time; unfortunately this passion is not enough to change her reputation. Lucrezia had artistic skills and her verses, preserved among the manuscripts of the Ambrosian, prove it.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Mona Lisa
I have tried to imagine Mona Lisa’s feet and I think that, after all the interests shown for her throughout the centuries from millions of quotations, remakes, tons of written paper and who knows what else, she’s probably laughing up her sleeves: I’d imagine a bright open smile hidden under her dress aside from the shot that Leonardo da Vinci made her protagonist of the most renowned painting of the world. I join myself to the procession of whose that quoted her and that will still do it in the centuries to come and I make her shoe in the capacity of a comic; a fake smile painted PET and a question mark as heel representing the androgynous, feminine and masculine at the same time, as trend at that time of Leonardo, among embarrassing exchange of pictorial subjects and renamed self-portraits spiced up with alchemy.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Ophelia (Shakespeare’s Hamlet)
Aside from being one of the greatest poets and theatre’s writers, Shakespeare was also a pioneer of cinema, particularly for its primary root, the screenplay. His “Hamlet” is a clear example of that. We know that the little Ophelia will kill herself in the bed of a creak. As in every kind of performance, being it theatrical, pictorial or cinematographic, she is portrayed well dressed and perfectly make up as if she was going out on a date, not certainly to a rendezvous with Death. There are flowers on her hands and scattered across her clothes. The corpse is settled into water as if someone pitifully wanted to give her a post mortem dignity. The dialogue between the undertakers (the clowns, that in Shakespeare’s theatre bring Death) insinuates the doubt of the presence of a mysterious character, an “hidden2 assassin moving in the neighbourhood of the court or as a scene that has been intentionally cut off to rise up the suspense and the sense of apprehension, as in an Hitchcock or David Lynch’s film. The screenplayer’s job, before that of the director’s is that of catching audiences’ attention through the delicate duties of not giving clues, not explaining and principally not showing. So, the undertakers ask themselves on how weird is to bury a suicidal in consecrated earth and draw the brilliant conclusion “the lady drowned herself for self-defence”. Water is by far the purifier element, it’s the catharsis into which even the blackest assassin can clean his crimes off. In “Psycho”, Norman Bates hides his victim into water, so does the psycopath Jame Gumb in “The silence of the lambs” and in “Twin Peaks” the corpse of Laura Palmer floats in plastic to make her finding possible. The sandal of Ophelia is the one she could be dressing when the corpse free itself from the flesh and skin, and instead of worms and moulds I’d like to imagine flowers, leaves and threads of grass made of beads and slips of PET as natural “product” and consequently, a decoration exhaled by herself.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Anneliese Marie Frank
Two women with different and marked destinies, the same historical period. During a dictatorship time as the Nazi Regime, a woman with the passion for the cinema, Leni Riefensthal, benefits of the largest creative freedom as few directors ever had in any other part of the world and time. Photographer, screenwriter, editor and director, with her 'Olympia' she introduced such innovative techniques and style to make her Berlin’s Olympiad documentary one of the biggest cinematographic models ever.

Meanwhile, a Jewish girl, Anne Frank, struggled hard days inside a concentration camp, deprived of every sort of freedom and dignity. A diary, which pages were abruptly interrupted and transmitted as sad news until us. I created two opposite sandals, working with the symbology that comes to my memories for their very opposite stories. Leni’s sandal is made of photographic film and it has got a swastika for heels. The crocked cross is the oriental one, that stands for 'universal peace'. This symbol has been re-interpreted by Nazism that applied to the swastika an inclination of 45 degrees for more aggressiveness. The half a swastika symbolized Nazism’s end but it is also the incapability to achieve worldwide peace; the fact that is positioned under the heels of its major artist it is the recovery’s symbol of intellectual freedom. In Anne’s sandal I realized two transparent plastic heels that contained ash, miserable product of lager’s crematories and two sashes made of beads barbed wire, physical and psychological barrier to the freedom of human being.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Cleopatra
Researchers interested in her story have recently revealed that the queen might have been murdered. In Shakespeare’s tragedy step, when the clown brings the Nile’s asp to Cleopatra, he advices her about the danger of the snake, for the suicidal plan hasn’t been declared. The clowns tells her to be aware as the demoniac nature of the snake doesn’t make it proud of the food it eats. Even if the history would bright up certain doubts on Cleopatra’s last day of life, the mystery around this woman will never be disclosed. For the collective imaginary she is and always will be associated with seduction and to the asp by which she got herself killed. For it is far more romantic remember her this way. At the same time it would be less interesting to believe that a proud and strong woman like Cleopatra couldn’t be able to even control her date of death which would be decided by others, perhaps the Romans conspiring with the local aristocracy. Her sandal is made of peacock eyes for the symbol of life’s triumph that immortalized death in a hieratic moment. A stylised winged snake, son of the Nile, subdued to the will of who raised it up and gave it hospitality in her land. Land in which most part of treasures are hidden, not just buried, under the sand.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Isabella Rossellini (Dorothy Vallens)
This sandal is a personal tribute to my favourite artist David Lynch. Comic-strip writer, painter, screenwriter, director and sound designer. Among his many masterpieces I mention 'Blue Velvet' for it best represents the artist’s odyssey, compelled to mediate among the creativity, the exhausting search of funds to turn dreams to real and the anxiety for the economical returns linked to the producers. After the suffering of the financial setback for the film 'Dune', Dino De Laurentiis accepts to produce 'Blue Velvet' on the condition that the cost of the whole film wouldn’t go over five millions dollars and that Lynch would be disposed to work at minimum wage. The director obtained in exchange the full rights over the final cut. All films where Lynch was given freedom to create have been recognized masterpieces of screenplay and direction. In his films the attention for the detail become a circular element which is almost narrative and it stresses feelings as pathology, mechanical and repetitive banalities that are all characterized by violence of stability; automatized livings deprived of their own will but the one that create them and deads which wouldn’t leave the stage even also after being shot. Everything is well included into the compartments of life that keep going with its apparently primary needs, busy housewives stuffing turkeys, policewomen helping children crossing the road coming out of school, and pensioners watering gardens. Then the insects, alien clever creatures, thieves whose perfect nature allows them introducing every cavity, always present in every story of David Lynch. In Blue Velvet, after a running shot upon the “quiet life” of Lumberton, the cine-camera take a while before getting into the darkness of a terrible pile of bugs swarming inside a human ear. It belongs to Dorothy Vallens’ husband (Isabella Rossellini) singer in a night club, and is found by the young Jeffrey , who will play the detective to solve a case which will let him to keep touch with his innermost perversions. These perversions are what none or less all the protagonists of the movie will have to deal with, between eye games and sudden changes. Switching from victims to torturers in a few seconds during the same shot, nobody’s wants to actually draw attention, and therefore be judged in the act of satisfying their innermost desires. Isabella’s heels are entirely covered of bugs, whereas in the film they enter the ear. There are no bugs on her foot and this is my “happy” ending of the film; the camera frames a “living” ear and a robin, symbol of love, holds a cockroach in its beak as to symbolize a moment of truce that sounds like an armed peace. At the “Slow Club”, the night where Dorothy works, she sings two songs, “Blue Velvet” and “Blue Star”. The sandal’s vamp exactly draws two stars and they are made in PET, instead of velvet as the film might suggest, for it is deepest referral to the original director’s intents. In fact, incredible secrets inhabits into the “everyday” hidden by evidence. The PET bottle is everyday under everybody’s eyes and it is so evident to become, by absurd, invisible. It is the classic water container you can find on every table of the world, in the everyday reality that is also made of dirty business kept in the family till the cloth get so soaked that needs washing directly at the police-office. At that stage it is just crime news. Black. Blackest. As a cockroach’s back.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Marie Antoinette
I think that one should pay attention to the words used because what it is trash to someone, it could be everything another one owns. They say that one day, Marie Antoinette acknowledged with the fact that her subjects were so poorly fed that they didn’t even had bread, she has answered: ”Let them eating croissants!” I wonder if this sentence of hers, deserving of the highest praise for the pledge profuse into the resolution of the French res publica, came to her mind the day she was then beheaded. Her sandal is made of many guillotines, one for each toe and one for the ankle. I don’t want to hide my sympathy for Lady Oscar, when years back I was watching tv, totally taken by her cartoons series.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Jeanne d’Arc
All I know about Jeanne d’Arc is that she was French, she heard voices and she fought for the king, the same king that to express gratitude condemned her to the stake; I also know of a movie about her story interpreted by Ingrid Bergman and another one by Milla Jojovich; I think she was called 'the Maid of Orleans'. In my collective imaginary, this is enough to dedicate her a pair of sandals with 'flaming' sheet metal heels and a black cross as symbol of her passion and the one, repaid, of the king’s.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Guendoline (John Willie’s)
This sandal pays tribute to John Willie, a comics master, pioneer of the “bondage” way, whose work is the top and finest one could find in such field. His comic stripes were directly drawn on photo paper, collected by just a little group of estimators and mainly sold by mail. His stories were often unfinished. Occasionally happened that John Willie would refuse very remunerative works so that he wouldn’t have to come across censorship which might changed the nature of his stripes.
His character Guendoline has been a secret comic for years, but it has left very important traces in graphic’s evolution and styles one can find in the Seventies works of artists such as Allen Jones or in certain pictorial fantasies of Dino Buzzati.
Guendoline is victim of bad man’s persecution, she is a commonplace as de Sade’s Justine or the heroin in the “Histoire d’O”. Tied up, imprisoned, hang up, whipped: a character that belongs to fantasies of male domination. Guendoline is the object-woman tied up by laces and unreasonable corsets where the bad man, most of the time the artist himself playing the part of sir Dystic D’Arcy, will have the worst in every episode eventually. Her sandal is made of patent leather, a classic in sadomasochism, as her daddy wants to look her like. Or not?

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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Inspired by the Czech painter and decorative artist Alfons Mucha (1860-1939).

Nostalgia is the theme of my work which I can't deny obviously. Many years I collect antique laces, needleworks and appliques from 1900-1930 and it is so wonderful and realy magic to work with this gorgeous and fine handcraft.

I do not work with leather of fur because there is a big variety of leather and fake furs to work with.

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This shoe sculpure is part of a series of 20 sculptures of shoes dedicated to the most relevant women in history, literature, cinema and comics. This project has been commissioned by Superstudio Milan and ANCI, and chosen as opening event for the MICAM 2006.

Margot Mine (Lupin III)
Within the cartoons that accompanied my childhood there is Lupin III. The adventures of the thief gentleman inspired me for the sandal of Margot. Madly in love with her, Lupin tolerates her colossal betrayals, her escapes with the billionaire of the moment, the thefts she commits to her own gang, moreover planned to take revenge on Arsenic. However, all these ungrateful plans at the back of the poor loving end up in farce; Margot can’t make it on her own against the prince of thieves, sided by Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa.
In a series of absolutely genial and impossible situations, the poor commissar Kouichi Zenigata is always beaten and mortified, but regardless the cartoon transmits a positive message for there is a rooted good feeling able to reconcile the band at the end of every episode, as in every quarrelsome but united family.
This sandal has handcuffs as sash, but I left one open for she always succeed to set herself free, with the help, obviously, of her friends. The heels are precious stone-studded and the vamp is a string of pearls for they are her passions, strong enough to make her betray anyone who gets between her and jewels, and to make her deal with anyone who promise her richness and why not? A resounding lesson to her eternal beloved/hated Lupin III.

Courtesy of Daniele Fontana at Whitenoisephotography 2007.

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The soft leather strap with its luxurious beading is tied several times around the ankle.  [keywords] => [thumbnail] => trippen-t8.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/trippen-t8.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => trippen-t8.jpg [path_original] => files/trippen-t8.jpg [filename_original] => trippen-t8.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [23] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 295 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Blue beads [year] => 2005 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => pump [focus] => ankle,instep [colour_backup] => [colour] => 110DC0,2386C1 [material] => beads,leather [usage] => [sex] => [style] => experimental,transformer [description] => [keywords] => extension [thumbnail] => roosvanrijn-t2.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/roosvanrijn-t2.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => roosvanrijn-t2.jpg [path_original] => files/roosvanrijn-t2.jpg [filename_original] => roosvanrijn-t2.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [24] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 308 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Toe ankle bond [year] => 2005 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => extreme [focus] => ankle,toe [colour_backup] => [colour] => CC9966 [material] => beads,jewellery,leather [usage] => [sex] => [style] => experimental [description] => [keywords] => leaves, [thumbnail] => 95160_roosvanrijn-t24.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/95160_roosvanrijn-t24.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => 95160_roosvanrijn-t24.jpg [path_original] => files/95160_roosvanrijn-t24.jpg [filename_original] => 95160_roosvanrijn-t24.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [25] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 1242 [status] => online [object_type] => sculpture [name] => Women's shoes red [year] => 2005 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => extreme [focus] => instep,sole [colour_backup] => [colour] => 9E1224,EC0A36 [material] => beads,glass,jewellery,synthetic [usage] => [sex] => [style] => experimental [description] =>

Women's shoes red, part of the 'RED/wild' exhibithion 2008.

Women's shoes have long since mutated from clothing to a more fetish and status symbol. To push the non-functionality and non-ability to the extreme, Svenja Ritter has begun to make structures from silver and metal on the inner soles of her high heeld sculptured shoes. So they are also prohibitive and get a very torture character...

Material: metal and wax

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Bought by daughter Kate for her mum... or should I say practically snatched from the hands of the editor of Vogue at a sample sale! Alison has only worn these shoes out once - to make this portrait, to her they are a work of art, she is saving a public outing for a special event in the future, you might see her in them here... Part of Soles exposed: 21 women in their favourite shoes (January 2005, Adam Street Gallery, London) This show featured paintings of 21 women in their favourite shoes, by artist and designer Kelly Sant. Kelly has painted the feet of some of the leading lights of the design and fashion worlds, each clad in their favourite shoes. From design curators, to stylists, to the muse of a 70s shoe designer, each has chosen the shoes that they feel best sum them up. Essentially these are portraits of feet, some defiant, some coy, some strident, some sexual: each painting richly conveys the essence and personality of their owner. 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Fetisj-shoe made for the exhibition 'Normen en Waarden'.

Size: 34

Heel: 14 cm

Material: goat leather and pearls

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Part of Soles exposed: 21 women in their favourite shoes (January 2005, Adam Street Gallery, London) This show featured paintings of 21 women in their favourite shoes, by artist and designer Kelly Sant. Kelly has painted the feet of some of the leading lights of the design and fashion worlds, each clad in their favourite shoes. From design curators, to stylists, to the muse of a 70s shoe designer, each has chosen the shoes that they feel best sum them up. Essentially these are portraits of feet, some defiant, some coy, some strident, some sexual: each painting richly conveys the essence and personality of their owner. Yet each portrait ends at calf level, tantalising the viewer with suggestions of what is not revealed. 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Part of Soles exposed: 21 women in their favourite shoes (January 2005, Adam Street Gallery, London) This show featured paintings of 21 women in their favourite shoes, by artist and designer Kelly Sant. Kelly has painted the feet of some of the leading lights of the design and fashion worlds, each clad in their favourite shoes. From design curators, to stylists, to the muse of a 70s shoe designer, each has chosen the shoes that they feel best sum them up. Essentially these are portraits of feet, some defiant, some coy, some strident, some sexual: each painting richly conveys the essence and personality of their owner. Yet each portrait ends at calf level, tantalising the viewer with suggestions of what is not revealed. 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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.

 

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

 

 

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystall, sillicon caulking on harp shaped armature.

 

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.

Collction of Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, USA.

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.

Collection of the artist.

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Mixed media: glass beads, crystal, silicon caulking, cardboard on a shoe size 37.

Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.

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Mixed media: glass beads, silicon, oil paint on masonite, found furniture. (Life size) bedroom installation, 1985.

PS1 Museum, Long Island City, Queesn, New York City.

 

 

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Rhinestone Slingback, 1956. Part of the collection of the Dutch Leather and Shoe museum, Waalwijk, The Netherlands.

The Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum presents a surprising collection of shoes; from antique to contemporary. Further you will discover a fascinating exhibition of design in leather and a shoemaker's street with a small factory from beginning 20th century.

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Virtual Shoe Museum : Beads
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The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and our mailbox filled with loads of material on fantastic shoes, art and design on shoes.

And finally, with the help of Taco Zwaanswijk of Interactive Affairs, who designed the site, and Bart van der Ploeg of Resolume, who programmed the database and created the content management system, we're live! And proud! And we're only just beginning...

If you have any questions about the collection, or leads on shoes or designers, please let us know. Also, we're interested in your opinion on the collection and your experiences in the museum. You can contact the Virtual Shoe Museum by mail: Liza@VirtualShoeMuseum.com.

The Virtual Shoe Museum has different 'perspectives' on a shoe or object. These perspectives (designer, focus, colour, material, etc) show related objects and thus ways to navigate the collection.

The left column of the screen contains the main navigation. Each perspective contains several 'rooms'. Each room contains thumbnails of the objects it contains (on the right side of the screen). Choose any to view this object.

On an object's page, below the image, you can view more images, video and text (if available). Above the thumbnails, you find a list showing all the rooms this object belongs to. Here you can wander the rooms and find related objects.

 
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beads

 

Elephant-dung heelsWomen's shoes blackVictorian boot cameo necklaceThe Wizard of Oz Ruby SlipperOtazuTarbaFish open greyLucrezia BorgiaMona LisaOpheliaAnne FrankCleopatraIsabella RosselliniMarie AntoinetteJeanne d’ArcGuendolineMucha with pearlsMargot Mine (Lupin III)Wolfsboot HiawathaLibel muleCloud ankle bondMuranoTangoBlue beadsToe ankle bondWomen's shoes redBoudoirMushroomBeadypumpChanelThe Man who...The puss in bootsParty-girl-dancing-shoesVeroDevoraPurple Game Boy ShoeAlice in WonderlandShoe RedGreen ShoeMeangreenSwirl ShoeHarp detailFoot fetish: ValentineBlue ShoeBrown ShoeRed ShoeButtonsMixed MetaphorThe city that never sleepsRhinestone Slingback