100 Shoes: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

by The Costume Institute, Harold Koda, Sarah Jessica Parker

Book Overview

An exclusive look at one hundred fabulous shoes from the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A hundred pairs of shoes, from the 16th to the 21st century, paint a vivid picture of how shoe styles have changed--sometimes radically--over the years. They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th to the 17th...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300172400
• ISBN13: 9780300172409
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.2" x 7.4"