Shoe Store Installation

John Breed

This kaleidoscopic leg/shoe project is located inside the new Breuninger shoe store in Stuttgart, Germany. A former factory, the space has been transformed into Europeโ€™s biggest shoe store, which opened at September 2012.

โ€˜The installation is about the madness of women buying shoes,โ€™ Breed says of the fibreglass legs of slightly different colours. โ€˜Like in real life, when a lady returns home after another shoe shopping session and one asks, ‘Doesnโ€™t she already have a pair like this?’ Breed says his process began by making sketches of a Medusa head with legs and shoes instead of snakes with heads. Wanting to make it more โ€˜tempting and sexy,โ€™ he changed the Medusa concept into shoe-wearing legs. He used 145 shoes and a rainbow of paint to create this colourful legs installation.

145 shoes on multicolored legs. 9 x 3 m.

ยฉ John Breed


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