Toronto
WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era Footwear
327 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1W7, Canada
12 August 2019 to 30 March 2020
Footwear Event
The desires born from want drove an explosion of cultural creativity from film to fashion. Some sought to satiate the needs of the public, others sought to distract them from the troubling times, yet others hoped that by stoking desire and encouraging consumption the economy could be redeemed.
Some of the most innovative shoe designs in the history of Western fashion were created during this decade of want. Shoe designers Salvatore Ferragamo, Andre Pérugia, Steven Arpad and Roger Vivier played with the architecture of footwear creating uplifting platforms and wedges as well as futuristic novelty heels and revealing peep toes that reflected escapist Hollywood glamour as well as new conceptions of fashionable femininity.
WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era Footwear
327 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1W7, Canada