In celebration of the extraordinary life and legacy of Elizabeth Taylor, Christie’s is honored to open the window into the public and private world of a true icon. The online auction will be held between December 3rd and 17th 2011.Elizabeth Taylor played many roles in her time: international film and fashion star, loving mother, successful businesswoman and brave and generous...
A 10 year retrospective of London based Japanese shoe designer Kei Kagami curated by Steinbeisser is on display from 6 November till 2 December 2011 at the Lloyd hotel & Cultural Embassy in Amsterdam.The exhibition is an encompassing a display of Kagami and his design partner Yoshi Yamakuwa’s unique relationship with their varied media and materials. Kagami, a classically trained...
A piano concert, performance and an installation with spectacular high heels by Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Christian Louboutin and shoe designer Hester Vlamings. From a chocolate shoes to a whirlwind of two-dimensional ladies’ heels.Pianist and artist Tomoko Mukaiyama intelligently weaves together various and very different compositions like Bach, Stockhausen and Ligeti and places them in a new musical and visual context....
Each illustration of a sexy stiletto shoe is accompanied by an original story, loaded with witty puns and clever innuendo, narrated by a hard-boiled skirt chaser right out of a 1940’s detective novel. Exaggerated proportions make each heel impossibly high and impossibly sexy. Right away, you’re in the mood to surrender to every tongue-in-cheek double meaning in the otherwise innocent...
Falling in love again… with Jan Jansen. On September 1 2011 he opened, dancing with his wife and muse Tonny, his shoe shop ‘The Ballroom’ in the The Hague. Jan Jansen is one of the best known Dutch shoe designers. He started designing very colourful shoes for both men and women in the 60’s. He sells limited edition models under...
The Kunsthal Rotterdam proudly presents the result of Pet van de Luijtgaarden’s passion for collecting, from 2 July till 11 September 2011. Pet is a visual artist who is fascinated by the absurdity of abundance when it comes to ‘stuff’. ‘Shops are getting larger and fuller, but what do we need it all for?’ As a collector, Van de Luijtgaarden...
During the second edition of the Fuenso International Shoe Design Awards in Mallorca Minna Parikka won the award award for best breakthrough designer 2011.After working and finding inspiration in London, Milan and Barcelona Minna Parikka returned to her native Helsinki in 2005 to launch the Minna Parikka brand. Minna’s love of footwear is based on the fact that shoes –...
Shoe Love in pop up is a fantastic book by Jessica Jones. The book for shoe lovers that already have every shoe book on this planet!It features ingenious pop-ups, interactive pages, beautiful illustrations, brief history of the shoes, funny quotes. Each page is a new surprise. Famous shoes by Vivienne Westwood and Manolo Blahnik are shown in a new way....
Liza Snook, the director of the Virtual Shoe Museum has several shoe collections. Liza:‘I was born with a passion for shoes and I have been collecting shoes now for more than 25 years. My private collection consists of a library of shoe books, shoevenirs, shoes from different cultures and hundreds of Barbie shoes.’ My collection of wearable shoe is as...
For the second time, the Virtual Shoe Museum was present “in the real”. During the three days of the first Chinese appearance of the GDS, we shared a booth with Nicoline of Y-trends who organised some shoe trend seminars.With over 100.000 visitors the show was a big succes, and although the Museum was a bit of a alien, we got...
