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Featured Article: FIDM Students Exhibit at the Shoe Museum in Vigevano

Danielle Petri

Think of Cinderella’s glass slippers, Dorothy’s ruby red shoes, Imelda’s 3,000 pairs. And any shoe site that neglects to mention Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex and the City character doesn’t because its spell checker can’t find Manolo Blahnik.

The next best thing to wearing wonderful shoes is looking at them. Shoes are form, function, fashion, and fantasy. And where better to walk through the history of shoe design than at the world’s newest footwear museum?

Lilian Choi
Italy has long been recognized for its world class fashion. Less than an hour southwest of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, the city of Vigevano has made fashion history since the 1930’s with exquisite shoe design and footwear craftsmanship.

Moon Joo Jun

In the newly renovated Sforzesco Castle in Milan, the Pietro Bertolini Footwear Museum was re-opened after years of being closed to the public. As a result of a donation by the Bertolini family and various Vigevano footwear designers, a collection of over 500 unique examples of footwear is now available to fashion designers, shoe designers, researchers, students, and the general public.

Shannon Britt Miller
This significant repository provides a unique look at the history of footwear from 3 viewpoints: shoes through the ages, footwear as a part of dress, and styles from different cultural civilizations.

Kashe Mowatt

The historical section contains exhibits dating from the 15th century to present day and includes shoes worn by historical figures. In the ethnographic section you can examine footwear worn by different peoples… Arabian babouches, Eskimo moccasins, African sandals, Japanese guetas, Chinese slippers, and many more.

Caroline Poland
To celebrate the opening of the Museum, an invitation was extended exclusively to seven students of one of the world's most prestigious footwear design programs—Los Angeles’ FIDM / The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Saji Simon

After the extraordinary opportunity of being able to examine the museum's collection up close, each student chose five shoes that had inspired them to create a current contemporary design. Flashing Back to Flash Forward was the theme of the project.

Currently the students’ artwork is displayed in the museum and will be shown for one year. The sketches above were created by students in FIDM's Footwear Design Program. Click here to request more information on FIDM.