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Favourites from the shoe calendar

Jan 282009

I was looking at the aforementioned Shoe Calendar with all its wild and lovely shoes flipping by, and thought it would be neat to post some of my favourite pages. So here’s a catch-up post with the “best of so far.” The first up for January 5th – “Over-the-knee boots with Chinese-inspired embroidery, Yves Saint Laurent, 2004.” My crappy photograph really does not do these gorgeous boots justice. They are in fact much more leggy and slim, with striking colours and textures.

Next up, from January 12th, a too cute pair of red patent leather T-strap Mary Janes, by Andre Courreges, 1968. Love!

And I couldn’t leave out January 20th’s totally wild fork and wire stiletto by Sergio Alberto Astuto, 2004:

And I just love something about January 27th’s Paul Klee-inspired kidskin pump by Andrea Pfister, 1983. Maybe it’s the fun colours, the jutting shapes, or the fact that it reminds me of playing in my stepmum’s closet of old wild 80s accessories. The sensible heel doesn’t hurt either!

Page-a-day shoe calendar

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Jan 082009

One of my favourite parts of starting a new year is cracking open a new page-a-day shoe calendar. The Shoe Gallery Collection is a year-long celebration of shoes. Images come from “an extraordinary private collection, as well as artists’ archives, museums, and the hottest runway shows.”

So many shoes are absolute works of art, and many of these I would never see outside a museum. The shoes range from way old historical stuff, to funky 60s styles, to wacky, whimsical, or just plain stunning contemporary pieces. And of course, there’s always some fug thrown in there. It’s like a new little piece of art on my desk every day.