World at Your Feet
Bata Shoe Museum
Will be published approx. on 12. March 2024
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7893-4501-1 (ISBN)
Description
The one hundred shoes featured in this volume are among the most important in the collection and display a fantastic array of styles. Creative director and senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack uses these treasured examples to discuss society, culture, gender, fashion, and other facets of history that are revealed through the study of footwear. 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
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
150 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 304 mm
Width: 262 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
2100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7893-4501-1 (9780789345011)
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Previous edition
Book
04/2020
Rizzoli International Publications
€47.00
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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.