Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67276 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-01
• Original language: English, Italian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Well-known British designer Vivienne Westwood has recently been the focus of a major exhibition seen around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Her shoes are the sole focus of this timely and splendidly illustrated publication. Color photos of her footwear from 1973-2006 take up the m

Customer Reviews

Food for the sole!
Does exactly what it says on the tin! Page after glorious page of lucious full colour photos of the Dames beautiful shoes. I love this book. It's not only for Westwood fans, but for students, historians, poets, punks and romantics.

Shoes at their best!
This book is a to die-form publication for any fans of cool and beautiful shoes or simply followers of the Queen of British fashion. There have been plenty of books on Westwood's fashion (especially the punk period) but nothing that looks at just her shoe designs as does this book. The photography and reproduction is first rate and this is an excellent sourcebook for all budding designers as well. If you are interested in shoe design then add this to your library of shoe books.

Visually gorgeous but give the text a miss!
The photographs are a delight and any fan of Westwood will drool over them, but I did feel I ought to read the relatively few pages of text first. However, I quickly realised that this was not in English as I know it but in some sort of code! I was glad to learn, for example, that the most immediate reference was Situationism which is a movement of subversive ideas which did not aspire to formalisation in an enclosed work of art but to leaving behind traces and red herrings. Lucky they told me! Luckily this did not detract from the appeal of the book as a whole.