Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute: Shoes
By BarbaraAnne:
Flipping through the shoe database of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, I came across an unexpected similarity. Proportion united two pairs of shoes, made 250 years apart.
In 1700, French ateliers embroidered this pair of ladies’ leather shoes with silk thread in a masterful floral design. Points were at the toe and heel.
In 1950, Salvatore Ferragamo designed these purple suede shoes, also with a medium-sized heel. Influenced by Italian Renaissance men’s fashion, he put a pointy shape near the ankle and lined it with gold kid leather. I just felt a serendipitous connection. Do you?
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One Response to Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute: Shoes
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+Susan Maxwell Schmidt
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Loosely wrapped, creative, nocturnal, eternally blue, reclusive, eccentric, obsessive perfectionist... in other words, an artist.
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What I feel is a need to add to my Ferragamo collection, starting with those babies.