Bata Shoe Museum: A Guide to the Collection - Softcover

Semmelhack, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789344025 ISBN 13: 9780789344021

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2023

Synopsis

The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada, in a gem of a building designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Since its opening in 1995, the museum has welcomed more than two million visitors to more than forty exhibitions. It is also renowned for its ground-breaking research and is consistently celebrated as one of the top fashion museums in the world.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Semmelhack is the creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, and her work focuses on the intersections of fashion, economics, and gender with a particular interest in the history of footwear. She has curated over twenty exhibitions for the Bata Shoe Museum, including the blockbuster traveling exhibition The Rise of Sneaker Culture and the ground-breaking exhibitions Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels, On a Pedestal: Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels and Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe, each with an accompanying publication.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789344025
• ISBN 13: 9780789344021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56