High heels
Subtitle: fashion, femininity, seduction
By: edited by Ivan Vartanian ; with contributions by James Crump [and others] ; interviews with Manolo Blahník, Nicholas Kirkwood & Charlotte Olympia
Contributors: Blahnik, Manolo, 1942-
Publisher: Goliga; Distributed in North America by D.A.P.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781935202691
Subjects: Shoes in art; Women's shoes; Fashion photography; Pictorial works
Description: The high-heeled shoe conjures self-assured allure and erotic intoxication like no other item of women's wear. Just recently the high heel has undergone a massive resurgence in popularity, in part reinventing itself through an overt invoking of fetish, with which the heel has of course always had some relationship. Built around a selection of images of heels from contemporary photography, "High Heels: Fashion, Femininity and Seduction" explores the confluence of art, fashion and fetish in the cult of high heels swooping down the fashion show runways and city streets everywhere. Illustrated with works from photographers such as Guy Bourdin, Juergen Teller, Bettina Rheims, Marilyn Minter, Tim Walker, Steven Klein, David Lachapelle and Vanessa Beecroft, among many others, "High Heels" also includes several important texts: an essay by Valerie Steele on the industry forces behind high-heel design; Tim Blanks of Style.com interviews Manolo Blahnik and Nicholas Kirkwood; Philip Delamore describes the technological developments behind the extreme contours of recent shoe design; Stella Bruzzi on high heels, gender, and representation in film; and an introduction by Ivan Vartanian, in conversation with James Crump, discusses the high heel as a vehicle for discussing a fetish for photography in general. "High Heels" is a visual odyssey through the powerful ideas of beauty, danger and seduction that the high heel evokes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : nude in heels, or a fetish for photography / by Ivan Vartanian; title: Shoot to thrill : fetishism and fashion photography in the 1970s / by James Crump; title: In conversation : Valerie Steele; title: Tim Blanks in conversation with Manolo Blahnik, Nicholas Kirkwood, Charlotte Olympia; title: Techno heels / by Philip Delamore; title: Heels on screen / by Stella Bruzzi.