Stiletto
by Caroline Cox
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060748133
- ISBN 13
- 9780060748135
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Harper Design, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages illustrated in color. Caroline Cox presents the various incarnations of the stiletto since its invention as a fantasy shoe brought to life by the flair and skill of shoemakers Vivier, Perugia, Ferragamo, and Jourdan in the early 1950s. Assertively modern, stilettos released women from the utilitarian wartime fashion of the 1940s, offering streamlined sophistication and glamour to women the world over. As the decade progressed the heel became saucier and higher, worn by starlets like Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. By the end of the 1950s the heel was being worn by “bad girls” and had become a weapon of female power. The 1970s took the stiletto’s associations with sex and death and turned it into a fetish object, eulogized by artists Allen Jones and Eric Stanton. 1980s power dressers brought the stiletto back into the fashion arena, and today heels designed by Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, and Gina are the badge of celebrity status and fashion savvy. Mild wear to dust jacket, clean copy. Record # 375412
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 375412
- Title
- Stiletto
- Author
- Caroline Cox
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060748133
- ISBN 13
- 9780060748135
- Publisher
- Harper Design
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- art, Fashion, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- art;
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