Object: Boots
Designer:
Ann Demeulemeester
(born 1959)
Date: Fall 1996
Medium: Suede
Country: Belgium
Credit Line: Gift of Ann Demeulemeester
Object number: 97.71.1EF
DescriptionSignature black suede short boots with high curved setback heel and red soles, squared toe and side zipper
Label Text:Accessories rose to new prominence during the 1990s, and increasingly were used to define the philosophy of a design house. Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester has consistently used variations on the black boot to define an androgynous, rock star persona.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- Arbiters of Style
- Shoes: A Lexicon of Style
- Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT (Part Two)
- Trend-ology