Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes - 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva (Paperback)

Australian Architect and Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University Derham Groves just published a book of his students' design of new shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong with Culicidae Press. Groves writes in the design brief to his students: "At its best, fashion-like architecture-can be biographical. In 1939 the beautiful and intriguing Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong performed at the Tivoli Theatres in Melbourne and Sydney. ...] Wong was a fashionista of her day. It appears that she was particularly fond of shoes: while in Melbourne she was photographed buying shoes at Foy's department store and in Sydney she revealed to a reporter that a Chinese-style shoe she wore as a child and kept in her dressing-room was her lucky charm. Design and make a pair of shoes for Anna May Wong by 'altering' (i.e. adding to, cutting, painting, etc.) a second-hand pair of shoes purchased from an op shop. ...] Hand in the shoes, along with a 200-word explanation of how they relate to Anna May Wong, on the 12th of October 2010]. Also upload an image of the shoes on the subject's Wiki page."

General

Imprint:	Culicidae Press, LLC
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Illustrators:	Huey Groves
Introduction by:	Elaine Mae Woo
Photographers:	Lee McRae
Dimensions:	216 x 216 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-0-615-86068-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Textile arts > General
LSN:	0-615-86068-0
Barcode:	9780615860688

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