Foot Fetish: Brooklyn Museum’s New Killer High Heel Exhibit

Those shoes are to die for!  And somewhere in stacked heels’ storied past, someone might have…

Impractical footwear?  Fashion statement?  Power play?  A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum’s first floor Robert E. Blum Gallery takes a look at all things High Heel, from their history… to the enduring effects of those extra inches.

Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heel Shoe, runs September 10, 2014 through February 15, 2015.  It is at once a smorgasboard for the shoe lover and study of the high heeled shoe’s place in society.

From 17th century to present day, some 160 heels — on loan from designers, costume museums and fashion house collections — are on display, providing enough shoe porn in the form of sky high platforms, stilettos, wedges and other architectural wonders to keep you coming back for more.

So are these pumps really killers?  Well, if the shoe fits…