The stiletto makes its mark in history
Highlighting its importance in the history of the footwear industry, a new exhibition dedicated solely to the stiletto heel will open at the Vigevano Castle in Italy on February 23, under the title “The stiletto heel. Glamour and appeal”.
Organised by ANCI Services and the International Footwear Museum P. Bertolini and sponsored by the Italian National Chamber of Fashion, the exhibition will showcase photographs and shoes which depict the stiletto’s path through history in terms of technology and fashion.
The first room of the exhibition will include models created between 1953 (which is said to be the official ‘birth year’ of the stiletto heel in Vigevano) and 1960. It will also showcase the first stiletto heel shoes created by Ferragamo in Florence, as well as those from Italian and French fashion houses such as Panvi, Erco, Laveroni, Aldovrandi, Waltea, Re Marcello and Caimar, Roger Vivier and Charles Jourdan.
The second room (from the eighties to the future) will present 100 different models of shoes beginning with the “Manoloes” of Manolo Blahnik moving onto Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin, Giorgio Armani, Lagerfeld, Donna Karan, Givenchy, Vuitton, René Caovilla, and Zanotti, as well as upcoming designers such as Courtney Crawford, Amaterasu and Guillaume Hinfray.
The exhibition will run from February 23 to May 25.
