After 42 tumultuous years in the shoe industry, John Fluevog is being recognized by The Two/Ten Foundation of Canada as the Canadian footwear industry’s shoe yerson of the year. Fluevog will be presented with the award at a gala of the highest order, to be held at The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto on tuesday, January 24 2012. Fluevog: ‘I...
In Berlin, several hundred protesters demanded the departure of the German President Christian Wulff with shoes, boots and other footwear in their hands. Wulff is discredited because he tried to stop a newspaper publishing an article about a controversial loan. This shoe protest refers to similar protests in the Arab world. On December 14 2008 the journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an...
The opening for the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum was held at December 5th at MoMA New York by actrice Anne Hathaway. Valentino Garavani, legendary fashion designer, has defined a unique world of couture for almost half a century. Now his achievement takes radical new form, in keeping with the creative traditions of the house: The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum.The Valentino...
He received the award last wednesday November 29 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.Photo By Courtesy of Nicholas Kirkwood The 31-year-old designer graduated from Central Saint Martins and Cordwainers college in London and launched his eponymous shoe collection in 2005. Kirkwood claimed his first Footwear Designer of the Year award in 2008. He has 130 outlets...
From 11 December 2011 till 6 May 2012, the Groninger Museum will present the exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Alaïa is one of the last major couturiers still active. The exhibition is a follow-on to the overview of his work shown in the...
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...
