Footprint
There have been a few exhibitions exploring the power of shoes recently; Pleasure and Pain at the V & A and Life on Foot at the Design Museum, both of which relate generally back to how we wear shoes from day to day. FOOTPRINT at the fashion museum Antwerp is based on the notion that 'anything can be a shoe' and takes a more avant-garde and high fashion approach to footwear than the other two shows.
Geert Bruloot and Eddy Michiels, shoe collectors and curators of this exhibition, have spent 30 years collecting shoes that inspire them. The shoes in this exhibition are a selection from the Bruloot-Michiels collection, complemented with over 500 masterpieces from the designer archives, shoe and fashion museums, and private and ethnographic collections.
Included is a range of designers and designs from Iris Van Herpen and Noritaka Tatehana to 19th century carved wooden clogs. FOOTPRINT considers the history of shoes in fashion and 'promises to be a true revelation for both shoe lovers and fashion freaks'.
FOOTPRINT. THE TRACKS OF SHOES IN FASHION
Until 14 February 2016