Object: Shoes
Brand:
Pierre Hardy
(French, founded 1999)
Date: Summer 2015
Medium: Leather and metal
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Pierre Hardy
Object number: 2016.18.1
DescriptionLight grey painted high heels with multicolor lily flowers in green, pink, blue, and black with metal zipper at center back heel
Label Text:This pair of shoes challenges customary representations of flowers. Pierre Hardy rendered realistic images of lilies in saccharine, artificial colors that he described as “acidic in the style of Warhol or Gilbert & George.” This was the first time Hardy had depicted flowers in a spring collection, and he said, “I tried to deal with them a different way.”
Exhibitions:
- Force of Nature
- Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic