Mad About Shoes (Hardcover)
by Emma Bowd, Rps Authors. This is the perfect gift for the shoe addict in your life. Following the lead of Sarah Jessica's character on Sex in the City, women around America are coming out of the closet with their love for shoes. In Mad about Shoes, Emma Bowd celebrates these artistic leather creations-from baby's very first pair to the stylish skyscraper stiletto. Illustrated with beautiful photographs, this is an ideal gift for any shoe lover, including the shoe lover in you.

Blahnik by Boman hc (Hardcover)
by Eric Boman. Long before their supporting role in Sex and the City, Manolo Blahnik's shoes were legendary—exquisitely detailed, unabashedly luxurious, and impossibly sexy. The epitome of sophistication and taste, they have graced the feet of royalty, supermodels, and movie stars. In these breathtaking pictures by Blahnik's longtime friend, photographer Eric Boman, the shoes take center stage in a dazzling array of intriguing and often lighthearted scenes and settings. A white leather stiletto plays an incriminating role in a suggested crime worthy of Hitchcock. A pale green mule nestles among ferns in homage to Blahnik's recurring botanical themes. The straps of a sandal echo the strands of spaghetti in which it lays entwined. Boman's unerring eye and oddly keen understanding of Blahnik's creations make for spellbinding pictures, full of wit, playfulness, and sole. Elegant allusions to Blahnik's eclectic influences abound—from the cinema to history, from the natural world to art and literature. As covetable as a pair of Manolos, this is a book of consummate creativity, addictive power, and unrivaled individuality: a cult object on a cult designer.

Manolo Blahnik Drawings (Paperback)
by Manolo Blahnik, Anna Wintour, Michael Roberts
My shoes are not fashion, they are gestures. So says Blahnik in a book that lays out his designs as brightly colored whimsies, sketches deftly convey the essences of his creations. Drawings show shoes alone or with a hint of foot and leg, and yet there is so much energy and color in the 134 illustrations (125 in color) that they seem to wink and pirouette off the page. As designs, the shoes are salacious cartoons of themselves, curvy and heeled, bejeweled and shimmery. Celeb quotes, interspersed throughout, heighten the spiraling sense of posturing and play. Madonna says, they are as good as sex... and they last longer. You just put on your Manolos and you automatically find yourself saying ‰Hi sailor' to every man that walks by, says Joan Rivers. Naomi Campbell calls the man the godfather of sole. Paloma Picasso, Isaac Mizrahi, Bianca Jagger also check in, and there are introductory essays by Vogue titans Anna Wintour, AndrE Leon Talley and Anna Piaggi, as well as by Michael Roberts of the New Yorker. The tasteful layout defers to Blahnik's work, with minimalist gray text alongside the circusy colors, and Blahnik's fabulous cursive descriptions. Divided by decade, from the 1970s to the 2000s, the collection is diverse and fun, and as documentary as a museum catalogue. It should appeal to any fashionista or design aficionado anyone with a sense of shoes as art.
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Shoes: The Complete Sourcebook (Hardcover)
by John Peacock John Peacock charts the development of every kind and style of footwear from earliest times to the present day, for both men and women. His drawings reproduce in meticulous detail a host of representative examples from every era: the simple sandals of Ancient Egypt, made from natural fibers; exquisite Greek footwear of the "Golden Age," including boots made from rawhide with leather linings and leg bindings; richly embroidered and bejeweled shoes of the Byzantine empire; the fantastic pike-toed boots newly fashionable in the fourteenth century; the hugely exaggerated platform heels of the sixteenth century; eighteenth-century women's slippers of the finest silk; and a huge range of contemporary shoes, from sneakers and stilettos to the latest footwear in radical materials and experimental styles.

The Art Of The Shoe (Hardcover)
by Marie-Josephe Bossan What is more ordinary than a pair of shoes? In a world where shoes have become objects of mass consumption, these accessories are now rid of any significance. The industry has accomplished its duty: producing a large quantity at a low price. But there was a time when the shoe symbolised the strength of the Roman legion, the power of the Medieval lords or the oppression of the Chinese woman. The history of the shoe is both vast and enthralling, as revealed by the author Marie-Josèphe Bossan. Supporting her analysis with an outstanding iconography, the author gives these commonplace objects a universal quality that sheds light on the whole of civilisation and elevates them to the rank of works of art. About the author: Marie-Josèphe Bossan A graduate of the École du Louvre, Marie-Josèphe Bossan is curator at the International Museum of the Shoe in Romans, the French capital of the shoe industry. This museum houses the greatest shoe collection in the world with its twelve thousand specimens.

Stiletto (Hardcover)
by Caroline Cox Stiletto spells sex. Nothing else creates an erotically taut, arched foot or an overall come-hither silhouette quite like the stiletto heel.This exquisite book uncovers the compelling lure of the needle heel.
A highly charged symbol, the stiletto suggests a multitude of contradictions - it can be elegant, vulgar, submissive, aggressive, subversive, conventional. The stiletto is phallic but supremely female, it makes the wearer at once vulnerable and in control. Six decades have seen the stiletto in vogue around the world with an ever-changing, kaleidoscopic clientele of classic ladies, Hollywood stars, fetishists, punks, princesses, power- dressers, cross-dressers, A-list celebrities, and the girl next door. For the first time, Stiletto attempts to uncover the compelling lure of the needle heel.

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes (Hardcover)
by Andy Warhol

Shoes (Hardcover)
by Lucy Pratt, Linda Wolley The authors, curators in the Department of Textiles and Dress in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, have compiled a glorious array of color photographs and period illustrations of rare bags and shoes from the museum. An informed and fascinating account of the development of shoes and purses since the Middle Ages results. Bags traces the development of this accessory from 14th-century girdle bags to 20th-century purses exhibiting the creative use of leather or manufactured materials. Shoes track decorative shoes, with varying heel heights, from medieval flats to modern lucite heels. Both books discuss men's and women's accessories but picture more of the latter, since more examples have survived. Using small type fonts to fit a great deal of information into a compact size (8" x 7"), these works are history books, not collectors' guides; there are, for example, no price listings. But savvy collectors will wish to read these authoritative tomes to gain familiarity with characteristic styles. Valuable for costume history students and other interested readers in academic, public, and museum libraries.

Bootism : A Shoe Religion (Paperback)
by Penina Goodman, Michael Duranko Do you forget people's names but remember their shoes' Do you have more than 10 pairs of black shoes' Do you often use the words love and shoes in the same sentence' If so, you may be a Bootist'or at least have Bootist tendencies'and this is the book for you. Bootism: A Shoe Religion provides a voice and community for the shoe obsessed. It validates Bootists, fashionistas, and those with Bootist traits. It will educate non-Bootist friends and family in the truths of Bootism:' You can never have too many shoes.' Style is everything.' Bootism is not a destination but a journey through life in a dynamite pair of shoes.' Price is not part of the purchasing decision.Bootism: A Shoe Religion includes quotations from celebrity Bootists like Sarah Jessica Parker, who has admitted to owning over 100 pairs of Manolo Blahniks, and interviews with regular Bootists who admit they even dream of shoes. Sharp, four-color graphic design makes Bootism as eye-catching as the shoes it celebrates. Whether you live the Bootist life or just live with a Bootist, Bootism reminds you, 'There is always room for one more pair.'

Heavenly Soles: Extraordinary 20th Century Shoes (Paperback)
by Mary Trasko

Shoes : Their History in Words and Pictures (Hardcover)
by Charlotte Yue, David Yue (Illustrator)