The Sneaker Book
From a London and Paris-based team of sneaker
enthusiasts, who are also graphic designers and
moving-image makers, comes this stunning tribute
to the shoe that has become a global obsesssion.
With contributions from celebrity musicians, athletes,
teen idols, moguls, sneaker designers and enthusiasts
from Kansas to Tokyo, finding issues such as crimin-
ality, exploitation and fashion.
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Shoes
By Lucy Pratt and Linda Wooley
The history of footwear fashion is told using beautiful
photographs from London's Vicotria & Albert Museum.
Included are a wide variety of shoes and boots, that
once belonged to the nobility and to the rising middle
classes, anonymous and famous, men and women. From
battered old 'chimney shoes' hidden away for good luck
to the elegant styles of the eighteenth century; from
Elizabethan mules to the first stilletoes in the late 1940s;
from the floppy topped swashbuckling boots of the Civil
War to chunky 1970 snakeskin platforms; and from 1920s
T-bar shoes to 1990s hand-made strappy sandals, this
colorful account is a real visual feast.
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Shoes : A Lexicon of Style
By Valerie Steele
This lushly illustrated book is devoted completely to the
meaning of modern footwear. It discusses the obsession,
the fetish, and the fashion of shoes from the pump to the
sneaker, the boot to the stiletto. All the major players are
represented here from interviews with Manolo Blahnik,
master of the "skyscraper" heel, to witty quips from Tom
Ford, the designer who sparked the resurgence of the
Gucci loafer. Subjects such as the merits of platforms,
or the "Designer Bofs" and "Techno Urban Warriors" of
the sneaker buying public are tackled with humor. The
book also explores the relationship between shoes and
sex, and gender roles. It is fun, thought provoking and
full of magnificent photographs.
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SHOES : Objects of Art and Seduction
By Paula Buratto Caovilla
Beautifully illustrated, this very original book traces the
history of women's footwear using old master paintings,
photographs, ancient shoes and unique exemplars and
proto types. Follow the footwear evolution from everyday
object to art artifact to the advent of leading stylists from
Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, to Ferragamo, Valentino
and Dior. It's fun, it's whimsical, it's provocative, it's a
stunningly beautiful book.
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A Century of Shoes
by Angela Pattison and Nigel Cawthorne
An unusual and absorbing perspective on twentieth-
century fashion, as seen through the rise of footwear
design, is the focus of this elegantly designed volume.
An extraordinary variety of shoe styles, designs and
designers are examined in the authoritative text and
illustrated in full color. The book's decade-by-decade
breakdown sets shoes in the context of fashion as a
whole and sheds light on the trends of each particular
era. 160 pages. $55.00 Order Now

Hot Shoes: One Hundred Years
Explore women's shoes as a powerful talisman of
fashion, culture, and sexual energy. You'll see designer
shoes by the likes of Daviv Evins and Palter De Liso,
who were influenced by haute couture but marketed to
the upper middle-class. You'll find a true cross-section
of shoe design. There are coquettish pumps from the
French Room mat Chandler's, jeweled platforms by
Frank More of San Francisco, and early canvas high-
button shoes by Keds. A beautiful chronicle of the
shoes that shaped the century.
(540 color photos, 224 pages)
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Platform Shoes
Over 300 eye-popping, platform shoe styles, shown
in color photographs demonstrate the creative spirit
in shoe design. Colorful and provocative, these shoes
span the globe and the decades and include snake skin,
fur, glitter, colored leather, woven raffia and fabric
materials. These fun and daring designs come from
every part of the world and include sporty, daytime
and evening styles, tie-ups, clogs, boots, slip-ons and
many sandals with ankle straps, some practical and
others simply outrageous.
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Shoes - Fashion and Fantasy
Written by top fashion writer Colin McDowell, this
book charts our unending obsession with the shoe.
Illustrated with a galaxy of styles, this is a gold
mine for fashion historians, and inspiration for
designers and a sparkling distillation of the fashion
and fantasy of footwear
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Standard of The West: The Justin Story
Follow the trail of Justin Industries from a one-man
boot shop to a $500 million enterprise. An anecdotal
and lively history of a family and a company. Trace
Justin--and its boots--through moves from Spanish
Fort to Nocona and Ft. Worth; periods of serious
financial difficulties; family legal squabbles, and an
unfriendly takeover attempt. An interesting read of
an industry trend setter. 260p.
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Swoosh
By J.B. Strasser & L. Becklund
"The story of Nike and the men who played there."
The inside story of Nike, Inc.- the men, their methods
and the hell-bent path that led them to become the
most successful sports company in history.
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The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe
By William Rossi
The author takes us on a walking tour through history,
from Chinese footbinding to the outrageous distortions
of the foot gladly suffered by women over the centuries
in the cause of sexual allure. He gives us an insightful
psychosexual guide to ourselves via our footwear. A
unique piece of social history; a provocative, often
witty and always original, inquiry into human behavior.
Revised 1993. (265 pages)
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