Description
| Product ID: | 9780761101147 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Shoes |
| Subtitle: | A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More |
| Authors: | Author: Linda O'Keeffe |
| Page Count: | 506 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Fashion and textile design, Cultural studies: dress and society, Fashion design & theory, Fashion & society |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating For passionate lovers of shoes, this reference book explores various types and supplies information about platforms, Cinderella's slipper, sandals and the allure of the naked foot, the 50 steps in the making of a shoe, and profiles of shoe designers and makers. The Marabou Mule. The Chanel toe. Jackie O''s pump. Marilyn''s stiletto. And lotus shoes and fetish shoes, shoes made for coronations and inaugurations, Cinderella''s slipper, shoes of tulle, brocade, rhinestone, python, fish scales, and feathers, and much, much, more, including the two-foot-high wooden chopines of the 16th century and their resurgence as the platform shoes of the 1960s and 1970s.Shoes, now with over 357,000 copies in print, is an obsessive, over-the-top extravaganza-chunky, full-color, and irresistible, it contains page after page of seductive photographs and information about women''s shoes.Created for the woman who''s a passionate shoe lover-and what woman isn''t?--Shoes features over 1,000 glorious photographs, most of them taken for the book. Includes Footnotes (fascinating facts about shoes); Foot Soldiers (profiles of master shoemakers from David Little to Andrea Pfister); and The Shoe that Left an Imprint, focusing on one shoe that changed history-remember Courrage''s futuristic go-go boot? Shoes is, as they say, to die for. |
| Imprint Name: | Workman Adult |
| Publisher Name: | Workman Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1996-01-12 |
