Object: Shoes
Designer:
Romeo Gigli
(born 1949)
Date: 1989
Medium: Gold metallic fabric and leather
Country: Italy
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P89.66.1
DescriptionFlat shoes in gold metallic fabric, with pointed toe, single strap over high, flared tab.
Label Text:Following the 1980s, accessories branched out in several discrete directions bearing seemingly no relation to each other; besides a form of severe minimalism and a mass logo-mania, there also ran a thread of intellectual, artisanal, individual, sometimes even subversive thinking.
Exhibitions:
- Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic
- Fashion, Italian Style
- The Couture Accessory