Shoes by Colin Mcdowell
Colin McDowell looks at the exclusive world of the bespoke shoemaker, charts the rise of quality mass manufacture and highlights the world of the great designers, such as Perugia and Ferragamo, as well as those of today: Vivier, Clergerie and Blahnik, and their counterparts in the new generation of shoe designers. He also delves into the darker realms of fetishism and imagination, revealing the place of high-heeled shoes and tightly-laced boots as objects of erotic fantasy, and their relation to the fairytale images of Cinderella's slipper and seven-league boots.
Adelheid Rasche is an historian of fashion and illustration. She is the director of the Lipperheidesche Kostumbibliothek, Art Library of the State Museums of Berlin. Colin McDowell is creative director of Fashion Fringe and senior fashion writer for the London Sunday Times Style Magazine. He has written numerous books on fashion, the most renowned being McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion, referred to as the bible' among the fashion set.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780500277553 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500277559 |
| Title | Shoes |
| Author | Colin Mcdowell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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