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Shoes

Hardback

Main Details

Title Shoes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lucy Johnston
By (author) Linda Woolley
SeriesAccessories
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 227,Width 157
Category/GenreHistory of fashion
Textile design and theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780500519387
ClassificationsDewey:391.413
Audience
General
Illustrations 114 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 13 April 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

From Medieval leather poulaines and dainty Victorian satin slippers to the iconic platforms of the 1960s and the gravity-defying designs of today, shoes have always been for than just functional. Focusing on the V&A's world-famour collection, Shoes explores the innovative and the elegant, the practical and the high-tech, and the way in which shoes have defines fashion moments throughout history.

Author Biography

Linda Woolley specializes in early and medieval textiles and dress and has written and lectured widely in these fields. She is a former curator in the V&A's Department of Textiles and Dress. She is the author of Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. Lucy Johnston is an expert in historical dress and a former curator in the Department of Textiles and Dress at the V&A. She is now a freelance curator and museum consultant specializing in fashionable dress, shoes and rural workers' clothing. Her publications include 19th-Century Fashion in Detail.

Reviews

'An amazing and extensively researched volume' - New York Journal of Books