Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_001_PS4.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_002_PS8.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_003_PS4.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_004_PS4.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_005_PS4.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_006_PS4.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_007_PS8.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015 (Image: DIG_E_2014_Killer_Heels_008_PS8.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014)

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Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe

DATES September 10, 2014 through March 1, 2015

ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT Special Exhibition

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April 1, 2014 One of the most provocative and iconic objects of desire will be explored in the exhibition Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, on view at the Brooklyn Museum September 10, 2014, through February 15, 2015. Through more than 160 artfully-crafted historical and contemporary high heels from the seventeenth century through the present, the exhibition examines the mystique and transformative power of the elevated shoe and its varied connections to fantasy, power, and identity.

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe will be organized in six thematic sections—Revival and Reinterpretation, Rising in the East, Glamour and Fetish, Architecture, Metamorphosis, and Space Walk—encompassing early forms of the elevated shoe, architecturally-inspired wedges and platforms, razor-sharp stilettos, and shoes that defy categorization. The exhibition also features six short films inspired by high heels that were specifically commissioned for this exhibition from artists Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Zach Gold, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Marilyn Minter, and Rashaad Newsome.

The objects, both traditionally made and conceptual in nature, explore and play with the elevated shoe’s sculptural, architectural, and artistic possibilities. Early shoes on view include mid-seventeenth century Italian chopines made of silk, leather, and wood, European leather and metal pattens from the eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century cotton and silk embroidered Manchu platform shoes from China. Other highlights of Killer Heels are Marilyn Monroe's Ferragamo stilettos (1959); stiletto mules of silk, metal, and glass by Roger Vivier for House of Dior (1960); and a wool "heel hat" made by Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Salvador Dalí (1937–38). Contemporary heels in the exhibition include "Printz," from Christian Louboutin's Spring/Summer 2013–14 collection; Céline's fur pump (2013) covered in mink; a black leather platform bootie with an 8-inch heel designed by United Nude for Lady Gaga (2012); and several other designs made in collaboration with United Nude, such as Zaha Hadid's chromed vinyl rubber, kid nappa leather, and fiberglass "Nova" shoe (2013); and Iris van Herpen's 3-D printed heel, "Beyond Wilderness" (2013).

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe is organized by Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, and will present works on loan from both established and emerging designers and fashion houses, including Manolo Blahnik, Chanel, Tom Ford, Zaha Hadid X United Nude, Pierre Hardy, Iris van Herpen X United Nude, Nicholas Kirkwood, Christian Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, Prada, Winde Rienstra, Elsa Schiaparelli, Noritaka Tatehana, and Vivienne Westwood, as well as works from the Bata Shoe Museum and the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that include classic shoes by André Perugia, Pietro Yantorny, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roger Vivier, and Beth Levine.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will include essays by Lisa Small; Stefano Tonchi, Editor-in-Chief of W Magazine; and Caroline Weber, Associate Professor of French at Barnard College and author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. The exhibition will travel to venues to be announced.

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April 2, 2014
Aperlaï
Tamar Areshidze
Steven Arpad
Brian Atwood
Balenciaga
Susan Bennis/Warren Edwards
Rosanne Bergsma
Manolo Blahnik
Richard Braqo
Isabel Canovas
Céline
Chanel
Andreia Chaves
Conspiracy
Delman
Christian Dior
Dolce & Gabbana
Fendi
Salvatore Ferragamo
FINSK
John Fluevog
Tom Ford
Jean Paul Gaultier
Givenchy
Georgina Goodman
Zaha Hadid X United Nude
Julian Hakes
Pierre Hardy
Iris van Herpen X United Nude
Marc Jacobs
Nicholas Kirkwood
Aoi Kotsuhiroi
Masaya Kushino
Chau Har Lee
Beth Levine
Christian Louboutin
Kerrie Luft
Martin Margiela
Alexander McQueen
Miu Miu
Charlotte Olympia
André Perugia
Tea Petrovic
Cat Potter
Prada
Winde Rienstra
Rodarte
Yves Saint Laurent
Iris Schieferstein
Elsa Schiaparelli
Zuzana Serbak
Shoise
Christian Siriano
Victoria Spruce
Sputniko!
Walter Steiger
JANTAMINIAU
Noritaka Tatehana
threeASFOUR
Rem D. Koolhaas
René van den Berg/Karin Janssen
United Nude
Viktor & Rolf
Roger Vivier
Atalanta Weller
Vivienne Westwood
Pietro Yantorny
Giuseppe Zanotti

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February 1, 2015 The Brooklyn Museum announced today the extension of Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe. The popular exhibition, originally scheduled to close on February 15, will remain on view through Sunday, March 1.

Killer Heels explores fashion's most provocative accessory, the high-heeled shoe. The exhibition looks at the high heel's rich and varied history—from the platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today’s runways and red carpets— and its enduring place in our popular imagination. 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 such as Chanel, Manolo Blahnick, Alexander McQueen, and Christian Louboutin, from the renowned Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, and from the Bata Shoe Museum. Presented alongside the objects in the exhibition are six specially commissioned short films inspired by high heels.

The filmmakers are Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Zach Gold, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Marilyn Minter, and Rashaad Newsome. Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe is organized by Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions.

Killer Heels is sponsored by Nordstrom. The exhibition’s print media sponsor is W Magazine.

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