Fashionable Curiosities: Extreme Footwear as Wearable Fantasies

Abstract

This paper considers extreme shoes and the visual statements they make about contemporary society, women and femininity. It argues that extreme shoes are puzzling yet charming objects, epitomizing a spectacle-centered society: they are part of unexpected, personal performances, which blend the boundaries of fashion and art and allow the wearers to shift from an ordinary “self” to the extraordinary “other.”

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