Also, she has legs of different lengths, famously triggering other models to exclaim she was being unfair “to be able to change her height!!! Her Ted Talk is so impactful. With 12 pairs of legs, she has different heel heights, legs with blades for running. (It is often hard enough to walk as an amputee, let alone change shoes)Īimee Mullins-the model, athlete, and public speaker, a bilateral amputee is a champion of mine. I speak about these 2 women because they are amputees who regularly wear different shoes. If we think it is hard enough to pack and limit shoes, imagine when one has to travel with the whole leg. Here there is no room for “ they probably won’t hurt in Italy”. Carry-on makes one choose very carefully. Travel has dictated fewer pairs of shoes. Gradually, many running shoes have become dress shoes, with an explosion of colors, fabrics, in flat shoes for women and INDEED some with those wide toe boxes. I believe it was around 9/11 that women began wearing running shoes to walk to work, many carrying “dress shoes” at work. Conversely, it was never OK to wear a hose with peep toe shoes. At one time it was such that hose was required with shoes. Marilyn Monroe’s shoes in the 26ft Seward Johnson sculpture installed in Pioneer Court in Chicago 2011įashions, customs, and attitudes change. Born in Osaka, Japan (1972), she lives and works in Berlin.ĭid I say I love shoes? Though I never wore stilettos, I adore watching the bright young things at a party or wedding in stilettos of all manners, glittery, strappy, sling backs, sleek pumps in gorgeous colors, bows, different shaped heels. Her large-scale thread installations include a variety of common objects like keys, windows, shoes, with a web of wires and threads. Too, Chiharu Shiota explores human existence throughout various dimensions. Photo: Kind permission of the artist Willie Cole Willie Cole’s absolutely beautiful installation at the Hamilton, New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture of the almost 7ft 2005-6 Pretty In Pink installation, uses many shoes in circles to express the concept of lotus blossoms which die and flower again. (this saves returning in weeks to the Salvation Army store to buy them back!)Īrtists have used shoes, often as just one example of used everyday objects as expressions in installations.Īs the website of the Virtual Shoe Museum (link in notes) says of Willie Cole “the repetitive use of single objects in multiples, Cole’s assembled sculptures acquire a transcending, almost spiritual vibration, and a renewed metaphorical meaning that often become a critique of our consumer culture.” Ooops! I still have many of those shoes even if from yesteryear, though a good number have gone to charities or at least to the “shoe departure lounge”: it is reserved for shoes not discarded until there is CERTAINTY that they must go. I must have had a goodish shoe collection (no, not like Sex in the City), but a collection of varied samples, because a friend had taken a photo of my shoe storage some years ago (I keep the boxes and put photos on the front) and then had fashioned a Christmas card of the shoes with the caption “Shoes in days of yore” How does one move from a perspective of an “Imelda Marcos fund” to a collection of shoes one will actually wear? I have surrounded myself with those who are like-minded with Christian Louboutin “I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, ‘Oh my God! They looks so comfortable!” I have a collection of many types of shoes, of course, none as far back as Chopines – those platform shoes from the 16th century in Italy, or even shoes worn by Manchu women in China in c.1800, such as depicted at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada.ĭreaded words (previously associated with members of a different generation) “wide toe box, excessive pronation, orthotics, gel this and that”, have entered the vernacular.
Things to do, and who knows how much time do I have?” The gait with someĬonfidence, an air of authority, can give me a demeanor of “I have miles to go, But so importantly, shoes make me walk a certain way.
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