From tiny Chinese slippers for women's bound feet to modern-day fetishwear, exhibition looks at how shoes can signify status and transform the wearer Forget the feathered Manolo Blahniks and crystal-studded Jimmy Choos, the red-soled Louboutins and gold-platformed Vivienne Westwoods. The corner of a cabinet that most clearly tells the story of Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, a new exhibition at the V&A, contains exquisite 19th-century Chinese silk shoes for bound feet which, at just 7.6cm long, showca...
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain review: V&A explores exquisite torture of footwear
The Guardian - 9 Jun 2015 21:40
From tiny Chinese slippers for women's bound feet to modern-day fetishwear, exhibition looks at how shoes can signify status and transform the wearer Forget the feathered Manolo Blahniks and crystal-studded Jimmy Choos, the red-soled Louboutins and gold-platformed Vivienne Westwoods. The corner of a cabinet that most clearly tells the story of Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, a new exhibition at the V&A, contains exquisite 19th-century Chinese silk shoes for bound feet which, at just 7.6cm long, showca...
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