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“You could say it’s my instinct. Yes I still have one.”
—Neko Case

'Hoof Heels' are inspired by both contemporary fashion trends  (AF Vandevorst) and ancient folklore (Pan). They suggest that the viewer can easily embody the animal self.

"Jackson’s precisely molded and glistening glazed forms are both beautiful and grotesque, and ask us to consider how animal instincts can live within human nature. And in doing so, she presents an interesting paradox, such as that noted by Simon Critchley: “There is something charming about an animal becoming human [but] when the human becomes animal, then the effect is disgusting.” For her, “These images provoke a psychological simile between animal and human, instinct and reason, the subconscious and the conscious."

Excerpt from 'We Believe in Something'.
By Christopher Atkins, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MAEP Coordinator.

Material: ceramic, platinum gold luster, flock, glaze, fur (9" x 11" x 4").

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This model represents my idea of Africa.

Material: reciclate neumatics and a horn of bull.

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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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The poster image for the Dutch literature festival 'Het Voorwoord' (the preface), with as theme 'The Human Zoo' features a pig wearing ultramarin/turqouise/purple Blahniks. I'm not so sure she's actually wearing them: after drawing the pig halfway, leaving the feet (paws) unfinished, I replaced the toes with - quickly googled- blahniks. She is standing on shoes without having feet. Maybe she is dreaming herself Blahniks as a means of materialising her great and gracious and light-weight self-experience right that moment. Who knows. We all have an appearance on the outside and an inner self-experience which don't necessarily pair. This huge, pink, voluptuous lady is a star for now. After finishing the drawing another thing stroke me: she has a kind of Virgin Mary-look in her eyes as we see in paintings, a virgin look all-over, that actually does not at all match her shoes. High heels are not for good girls. But hers are blue: the virgin's colour. [keywords] => [thumbnail] => Matthijs-Sluiter_t.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/Matthijs-Sluiter_t.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => Matthijs-Sluiter_t.jpg [path_original] => files/Matthijs-Sluiter_t.jpg [filename_original] => Matthijs-Sluiter_t.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] => 1216 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Miao [year] => 2009 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => extreme [focus] => buckle,heel,toe [colour_backup] => [colour] => 996633 [material] => suede [usage] => [sex] => [style] => animal,experimental [description] => [keywords] => cat, [thumbnail] => 41414_Kobe_Miao_t.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/41414_Kobe_Miao_t.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => 41414_Kobe_Miao_t.jpg [path_original] => files/41414_Kobe_Miao_t.jpg [filename_original] => 41414_Kobe_Miao_t.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [7] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 1136 [status] => online [object_type] => shoe [name] => Snake [year] => 2008 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => brogue [focus] => laces,toe [colour_backup] => [colour] => 6D7427 [material] => leather [usage] => [sex] => [style] => animal,experimental [description] => [keywords] => snake, [thumbnail] => Tetsuya-Uenobe_t6.jpg [p_ids] => ) [thumbnail] => image Object ( [path] => files/Tetsuya-Uenobe_t6.jpg [directory] => files [filename] => Tetsuya-Uenobe_t6.jpg [path_original] => files/Tetsuya-Uenobe_t6.jpg [filename_original] => Tetsuya-Uenobe_t6.jpg [web_path] => files/ ) ) [8] => objekt Object ( [table] => object [primkey] => o_id [db] => db_mysql Object ( [host] => [user] => [pass] => [mysql_link] => Resource id #9 ) [fields] => Array ( [o_id] => 846 [status] => online [object_type] => sculpture [name] => Horse shoes with zipper [year] => 2008 [brand] => [location] => [shoe_type] => extreme [focus] => print,toe [colour_backup] => [colour] => 663300,996633 [material] => fur,wood [usage] => [sex] => [style] => animal,experimental [description] =>

Horse Shoes, 2008

Material: Horse hooves, wood, zipper.

Courtesy: JACK THE PELICAN PRESENTS, Brooklyn, New York
487 Driggs Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.782.3183

www.jackthepelicanpresents.com

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

Material: Carp leather.

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It's a mixture of themes, rough and refined, sharp and organic, unusual with the tangible.

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.

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.

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

Material: Carp leather.

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Goat Shoes, 2005

Material: goat hooves, wood, gun.

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Horse Shoes, 2005

Material: Horse hooves, wood, metal heel.

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Snake Shoes, 2005

Material: snakes skin, gun.

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This project was shown at the Fuori Salone in Milan in april 2004, and is a selection of products in which the designers question 11 dogma‚s in design on 11 products. This results in 9 new products amongst which the Soft Stove of inflammable textiles, Baby Sitter and the moulded moles. The Moulded Moles questions the dogma of the responsibility as designer. Mole-catchers catch up to 500 moles a day and they are thrown away as garbage. As soon as you tan the animals and make shoes out of it does it then goes over the edgy of acceptance? 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The caps make me think of the ears of a rabbit. Robust boots for a severe winter. Allthough it will be hard to keep your balance in the snow. 

They are made from an old fur coat... no excuse...

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Sultry pin-ups, broken hearts, banners, swallows, a sailing ship, a black panther and lots of other symbols that will surely make you think of an old sailor's arms. 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Shamanism is a complicated system, where everything has its deep meaning and aim. Shaman's costume symbolizes the animal protector-spirit. In the region of Far-Baikal, most often you can find deer symbol. Sahaas need the deer costume for healing, but also for journeys to the upper- and underworld. Duck is one of the most important helpers of a shaman, as it can dive underwater feeling at home both in the underworld and the upperworld – in the air.
(Michaly Hoppal 'Śamaanid Aasias ja Euroopas')

Neon-deer boots and shaman-duck shoes were inspired of Northern nation´s shamanism traditions. In order to gain more power the shamans used to wear shoes which imitated the animal´s foot whos protection they were seeking. This idea was modernized and coloured into magical neon colour.

Shaman-deer boots platform sole and heel leave behind footsteps of a deer, in this way representing the shamanic deer protector-spirit, who is supposed to help the wearer of the boots. The duck footprint-shaped platform and merest thin heel leave the impression of a duck footprints when walking on soft wet ground.

In 2004 the 'Shaman duck' shoes got the 5th place in the lady's shoes category of the 'Lapiz de Oro' shoe design competition in Elda, Spain and were exhibited in the Elda shoe museum.

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Be afraid! 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This posters is designed for the play called Paparel.
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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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Hoof HeelsDogTsionClog elephant shoeElephant-dung heelsBig Blahnik GirlMiaoSnakeHorse shoes with zipperVicious footUnicornStretching catWater imp drowns in riverMacho bearHatch. 2007Fish open redParis Versailles, HeartTigerShoe chique cat faceLandscapes shoes 1Landscapes shoes 2Fish Outta WaterLandscapes shoes 3Isabella RosselliniCleopatraFish wedge greyLadybugParis Versailles, SwanParis Versailles, BirdSculpture shoeParis Versailles, FruitChaps BullFishtail shoes (Kalasabakingad)Goat shoesHorse shoesVegas girlPigMuzzleWingsHorse and sheepAnimalsSchneckeBrutal Billy goatMoulded MolesRabbitbootsLadybug (Lepatriinukingad)Cox's WannabeReptilesPantera MermaidGoathair BootShaman duck (Śamaan-part)Mice slippers (Koonusloomad)Yellow peril. Be afraid!HairyTuftSnake (Kígyó)CarpskinPapapelEmoeHorsetail BootsScorpio BootsFunfurFeathersKarenBirdyMinnie Mouse