Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her
provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps
her runway shows. Her shoes recently got a hit of mass-market retail
power when she did a limited edition collection for a partnership
including Nine West, Macy's and Vogue. This is the first book to gather
Westwood's shoe designs, every one of them--140 examples, including the
infamous platform that felled Naomi Campbell--from 1973 to the present
day. Newly commissioned colour photography documents each model, and
detailed reporting explains their history, laying bare the designer's
sources of inspiration and working practices. Vivienne Westwood Shoes
includes a biography and chronology of the designer's life and work,
most recently her 25th year of runway shows, a first major
retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and designs for the
rich and famous--from Tracey Emin to Cameron Diaz. It's essential
reading and window-shopping for all fashion hounds, she fetishists and
fans of the Queen of British design, who is at once the one of the
greatest living British fashion designers and the most talked-about.
