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Weird and Wacky Andre Perugia – Strange shoes
Posted in DESIGN, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags andre perugia, DESIGN, shoes on April 26, 2010 by echostainsWeird and wacky design: Walk a mile in these shoes?
Posted in DESIGN, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags alexander mcqueen, h r giger, nursery rhymes, shoes, wacky design, weird design on February 23, 2010 by echostains
I’ve not put any ‘Weird and Wacky designs’ on here for a while – so I shall address that now. I love strange shoes, though it takes me all my time to wear high heels these days (though I just will not be told and do try to persevere). I rather like these shoes. I like the shape of them, and I think that they would probably be comfortable – the hydraulics of them giving at least a bit of support. (link to an interesting shoe blog which featured them)
Now I really like these metal shoes! They would look fantastic – but I should think that they would be pretty uncomfortable to wear. They are the sort of thing the H.R. Giger would design (must do a post on that artist).
He did the visual effects on the film Alien for which he won an Academy Award. Ideal for a female alien perhaps? Do they have real feet? If so – how many?
These of course are by the late Alexander McQueen – a tragic loss to the fashion world. His designs were sometimes outrageous and very impractical – but what an imagination! I love the twisty meanderings of these shoes. they remind me of the nursery rhyme:-
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse
And they all lived together in a crooked little house.
I don’t think you would be walking very far at all in the last shoes. the nursery rhyme, by the way has its foundation in Kings Charles 1st – the crooked man being the Scottish General Alexander Leslie.
Metal shoe link here
H R Giger website here
McQueen shoe from this blog
Nursery rhymes here
He did the visual effects on the film Alien for which he won an Academy Award. Ideal for a female alien perhaps? Do they have real feet? If so – how many?
These of course are by the late Alexander McQueen – a tragic loss to the fashion world. His designs were sometimes outrageous and very impractical – but what an imagination! I love the twisty meanderings of these shoes. they remind me of the nursery rhyme:-
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse
And they all lived together in a crooked little house.
I don’t think you would be walking very far at all in the last shoes. the nursery rhyme, by the way has its foundation in Kings Charles 1st – the crooked man being the Scottish General Alexander Leslie.
Metal shoe link here
H R Giger website here
McQueen shoe from this blog
Nursery rhymes here
Metal shoe link here
H R Giger website here
McQueen shoe from this blog
Nursery rhymes here
Weird and Whacky Designs: Walk a Mile in my Shoes (if you dare)
Posted in DESIGN, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags ART, DESIGN, shoes on August 18, 2009 by echostainsMore strange and unexepected shoes! How do they keep on coming up with them?
They get weirder and whackier….
What’s puzzling me about the above shoes is do your toes fit into the shoe toes or do they stop short? So, do you have to get a size bigger than your actual feet?
These shoes are TOO cute for words! I would have screamed for these as a child….and I still wouldn’t mind a pair!
For guaranteed weird shoe designs look HERE you won’t believe it!
If you liked this post – there’s more where this came from! Go to my home page and look in my Categories, click on ‘WEIRD AND WHACKY DESIGN’
Honestly! Really Really!
Posted in WRITING AND BLOGGING with tags blogging, holidays, shoes on July 28, 2009 by echostainsHere is a list of links to post I have made so far concerning artist’s birthday. I have tried to make it a rule that I actually LIKE the artists’ work! Some artists I do like, I have not included so far, as their birthdays have clashed with something else I was writing about. Some birthdays I have only found out about when it was too late to include them , I mean to rectify this at a later date.
Rubens
Gauguin
Dali
Leonardo da Vinci
Hart Benton
Turner
Van Gogh
Morris
Pollock
Chagall
Kahlo
Modigliani
Degas
Weird and Whacky Design: Hand in Glove?
Posted in DESIGN, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags DESIGN, shoes on July 27, 2009 by echostainsStill Tottering on the Wild Side
Posted in ART, DESIGN with tags ART, high heels, shoes on May 17, 2009 by echostainsJust a short post today. This one goes with the one I did yesterday The Patter of Tiny Pattens Walk on the Wild Side
Whilst looking for unusual shoes, I was very much taken with these! fabulous handpainted shoes!
A rather unusual pair of surreal heeled elevators are these. Those heels are mind boggling! I wonder what they’re like to walk in? Or perhaps they are more for posing in! Great fun anyway!
Well I better pull my socks up or I’ll be late for work…down to reality eh!
The Patter of Tiny Feet in Pattens Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Posted in ART, DESIGN with tags brontes, chopines, haworth, mrs Gaskell, shoes on May 16, 2009 by echostainsWhat are pattens? And why aren’t they around now? Well I suppose they are still around but in a different incarnation. They’re called platforms! pattens have a long history (see here)
Pattens were made of wood or leather and sometimes very high 8 to 10 inches. The idea was to elevate the dainty or flimsily made shoe or slipper from the wet, muddy or damp ground. Rather like walking on stilts really. This site is very informative about shoes including pattens.
Some of these pattens had a metal ring at the bottom, this raised them from the ground. They must have been very difficult to balance on and it makes you wonder if people fell off them into the mud thereby defeating the object lol!
Another type of pattens were Chopines, made for the wealthy in Renaissance Italy, though they date to earlier and are by no means exclusive to Italy. These were very elaborate contraptions and highly fashionable.
The Bronte’s Aunt Branwell wore pattens. Coming from the warm climate of Penzance Cornwall, she hated the dark rainy windy climate of Haworth Yorkshire. She never ever got used to it. It was not considered polite to wear pattens indoors so Aunt Branwell was considered eccentric for doing so: –
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…she disliked many of the customs of the place, and particularly dreaded the cold damp arising from the flag floors in the passages and parlours of Haworth Parsonage. The stairs, too, I believe, are made of stone; and no wonder, when stone quarries are near, and trees are far to seek. I have heard that Miss Branwell always went about the house in pattens, clicking up and down the stairs, from her dread of catching cold.’ (From ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell). |
This patten comes from a metal detecting site. There is a very interesting story about how they were found!
I came across this interesting fashion blog!
A nice little Fashion Blog
Altered art book: page 11 Walk a life in my shoes
Posted in ART, MY ALTERED ART BOOK PAGES with tags ALTERED ART, altered book, art and shoes, childhood memorabilia, ink, mock snakeskin, nostalgia, paper, personal sphere, reincarnation, role reversal, shoes, watercolour, wax crayon on January 4, 2009 by echostainsThe words I picked out were; –
‘They walked through their childhood’
The idea of walking through childhood is of course associated with memories: nostalgia for what has been. My immediate thought was childhood toys, until the shoes hit me that is. How many pairs of shoes do we go through in life I wonder? What about past lives? all those shoes! One CANNOT have enough shoes…… or enough lives?
I scribbled these hastily on a prepared white background. The idea of walking in different shoes puts me in mind of Reincarnation, doing unto others as they would do to us, role reversal and of course following in our Forefathers footsteps. Is there a purpose? is there a pattern? or is life just a repetition of what has gone before? (in our personal sphere)
I have quite a few artists in mind, associated with this page, but they will have to wait until tomorrow.
Media used; ink,wax crayon, watercolour paint, print, mock snakeskin paper