If you haven’t visited the Brooklyn Museum “Killer Heels” exhibit it is an absolute MUST SEE, especially for fashionistas!! Located in the heart of Brooklyn New York at the Brooklyn Museum this exhibit is full of glamour, style and rich history! High heels are truly an art!
Killer Heels explores fashion’s most provocative accessory. From the high platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today’s runways and red carpets, the exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination.
As fashion statement, fetish object, instrument of power, and outlet of artistic expression for both the designer and the wearer, throughout the ages the high-heeled shoe has gone through many shifts in style and symbolism. Deadly sharp stilettos, architecturally inspired wedges and platforms, and a number of artfully crafted shoes that defy categorization are featured among the more than 160 historical and contemporary heels on loan from designers, from the renowned Brooklyn Museum costume collection housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from the Bata Shoe Museum. Designers and design houses represented in Killer Heels include Manolo Blahnik, Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo, Zaha Hadid X United Nude, Iris van Herpen X United Nude, Christian Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, André Perugia, Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli, Noritaka Tatehana, Vivienne Westwood, and Pietro Yantorny. The exhibit will be on display until February 15, 2015 in the Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
In other fashion news, Fashion Week Brooklyn took place this month at Industry City in the Sunset Park area. This S/S 2015 collection featured designers from the island of St. Vincent, France, Spain, the Philippines and of course the U.S. This year was something new and different with the designs of “Canine Couture” by Master Pet Couturier, Anthony Rubio. He has cornered the market on the $50 million dollars a year business of pet accessories and clothing. His pet collection consisted of sequin embellishment and lace. Pet owners love their pets so much that they want to spoil and pamper them in luxurious clothing like they would do for themselves.
