HEELSTORY | HEEL HISTORY IN PICTURES |



...and a bit of text

Introducing
HEELSTORY


André Perugia
1934 | Wire Metal Heels
1934 - 1950 | Talon à Boules
1939 | The Three Sphere Sandal for Elsa Schiaparelli
1951 | It's A Shoe-In
1936 - 1952 - 1953 | The Spring Heel
1956 | W/Mervin Zuckerman | The Twin Patents | Interchangeable Heels for I.Miller
1956 | I.Miller Is The Trend

Salvatore Cangemi V/S Salvatore Ferragamo
1952 | The Birdcage heel

Staerck (Paris)
1952 | The 'S' Metal Heel

Alberto Dal Cò/Sorelle Fontana
1956 | Yet Another Interchangeable Heel

Delman
1956 | The Chandelier Heel

Enzo Albanese (A.K.A. Albanese of rome)
1958 | The Slanted Stiletto

Albanese Of Rome
1959 | The Hula-Hoop heel (And more)


THE HEEL-LESS SHOE

1958 | The Heel-Less Shoe
Natale Ferrario & Manolo Blahnik
Part 1

1947 | The Heel-Less Shoe
Martin Friedmann, Jr & Manolo Blahnik
Part 2

1958 | The Heel-Less Shoe
Romeo Griffi Et Al
Part 3

1960 | The Heel.Less by Préciosa
Patent by Romeo Griffi
Part 4



ARCH AND HEEL ASSEMBLY

1938 | Léandre Grégoire Renaldo
The split platform

1940 | David Levin
With the help of Rem D Koolhaas

1968 | Ivo Barbaresi
For Ferragamo

1979 | Jean Mazabras
For Charles Jourdan/Seducta




Mart F. Irving & William R. Duncan
1960 | The Illuminated Heel

Delman
1960 | The Heel According To Delman
Thus Spoke Christopher Marlowe. Or maybe not.

Andy Warhol & Gina Shoes
1962 | Wheelstory

Beth & Herbert Levine
1963 | The Gaucho Heel
1964 | The Roll Heel

David Evins For I. Miller
 

Archive