Linda O. Keefe Boeken

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Providing the exclusive knowledge that every true snob must possess, plus authentic insights into the lives and skills of artisans, Le Snob: Shoes offers impeccable advice on all aspects from fit and style to fabrics, and features an authoritative directory of the most celebrated shoe designers and brands in the world, from Manolo Blahnik to Christian Louboutin, and their most outstanding creations. Providing an authoritative directory of the very best shoes available from around the world, from Louboutin to Jimmy Choo, you'll learn to distinguish true quality craftsmanship from the mass market high street brands. A select few of particular note will be marked as 'Essentials' to highlight the very best of the best. Also including information on styles and materials, vintage shoes, eco brands, and essential footwear accessories, this book provides you with the cachet knowledge every aficionado wants to possess. Additional features include Words from the Wise, advice from experts within the shoe industry on subjects ranging from the essential footwear you should own to shoe care and spotting the marks of craftsmanship, and In The Details will provide indepth information on the unique techniques and processes used to make the best shoes on the market. Witty, assured and informative, this book is the perfect foil for your passion for the most sought-after luxury shoes. Le Snob: elite guides for those in the know.

The Marabou Mule. The Chanel toe. Jackie O's pump. Marilyn's stiletto. And lotus shoes and fetish shoes, shoes made for coronations and inaugurations, Cinderella's slipper, shoes of tulle, brocade, rhinestone, python, fish scales, and feathers, and much, much, more, including the two-foot-high wooden chopines of the 16th century and their resurgence as the platform shoes of the 1960s and 1970s.Shoes , now with over 357,000 copies in print, is an obsessive, over-the-top extravaganza-chunky, full-color, and irresistible, it contains page after page of seductive photographs and information about women's shoes.Created for the woman who's a passionate shoe lover-and what woman isn't?-- Shoes features over 1,000 glorious photographs, most of them taken for the book. Includes Footnotes (fascinating facts about shoes); Foot Soldiers (profiles of master shoemakers from David Little to Andrea Pfister); and The Shoe that Left an Imprint, focusing on one shoe that changed history-remember Courrage's futuristic go-go boot? Shoes is, as they say, to die for.