Shoes : A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More >>>

by Linda O’Keeffe

Created for the woman who’s a passionate shoe lover, Shoes features over 1,000 glorious photographs, most of them taken for the book.

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.

Paperback.

Manolo Blahnik Drawings >>>

By: Manolo Blahnik, Anna Wintour and Michael Roberts

Manolo Blahník’s shoes inspire fanatical devotion. “Manolo Blahník’s shoes are as good as sex,” Madonna has said.

Here, collected together for the first time, are over one hundred exquisite drawings that Blahník makes at the outset of the design process.

These sketches are executed with such exuberance and deftness that they have become as sought after as the shoes themselves (they often fetch up to $15,000.00 at charity auctions). Inimitable in style, the drawings, beautifully reproduced in this book with special inks, vividly convey Blahník’s unique vision.

Whether it’s a Grecian sandal designed for Galliano, with a snake-like strap slithering up the calf, or an emerald- and bead-fringed satin mule, the seductive attention to detail in the drawings conjures up the shoe itself.
Manolo Blahnik Drawings contains 150 illustrations, 120 in color.