14. Shoes: The World at Your Feet

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14. Shoes: The World at Your Feet

1. Andrew Bolton, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011). Three examples: Eclect Dissect (autumn/winter, 1997–1998), red and black leather; La Dame Bleue (spring/summer, 2008), carved wood, leather, and silver beading; precollection (autumn/winter, 2006–2007) red silk embroidered with black and white silk thread.

2. Jan Glier Reeder, High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010), 227.

3. Illuminating Fashion, exhibit at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

4. Quentin Bell, On Human Finery, rev. ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 37.

5. Ibid.

6. James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 33.

7. Robert Selbie, The Anatomy of Costume (New York: Crescent Books, 1977), 20.