Shoe Obsession

Chanel, 2009 From the collection of Lynn Ban, Photograph © The Museum at FITMany may think that the extreme heel of today is a recent development, however a new book shows that elevated heels, along with much else attributed to current footwear fashions, have been part of shoe design for over two thousand years. In Shoe Obsession, Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York, and Colleen Hill, associate curator of accesso...