Bata Shoe Museum
A Guide to the Collection
Published on 21. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-0-7893-4402-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada, in a gem of a building designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Since its opening in 1995, the museum has welcomed more than two million visitors to more than forty exhibitions. It is also renowned for its ground-breaking research and is consistently celebrated as one of the top fashion museums in the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
50 Colour Photographs
Dimensions
Height: 182 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7893-4402-1 (9780789344021)
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Elizabeth Semmelhack
Bata Shoe Museum
Book
04/2020
Rizzoli International Publications
€38.51
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Person
Elizabeth Semmelhack is the creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, and her work focuses on the intersections of fashion, economics, and gender with a particular interest in the history of footwear. She has curated over twenty exhibitions for the Bata Shoe Museum, including the blockbuster traveling exhibition The Rise of Sneaker Culture and the ground-breaking exhibitions Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels, On a Pedestal: Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels and Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe, each with an accompanying publication.