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2013

Footsteps Through History

Start Date
19 July 2013
End Date
03 November 2013
Venue
Canons Ashby House
Location
Canons Ashby, UK

2012

Head over Heels

Start Date
16 June 2012
End Date
09 September 2012
Venue
The Oxfordshire Museum
Location
Woodstock, UK

2013

Last Man Standing: Springline Shoe Lasts

Start Date
05 November 2013
End Date
29 December 2013
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2009

In her Shoes

Start Date
30 May 2009
End Date
08 November 2009
Venue
Modemuseum
Location
Hasselt, Belgium
Curator
Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer
Lien Wauters & Ann Van Der Auwera
Vitrine containing shoes

2014

Shoes – Sexy Heels or Easy Sandals

Start Date
01 February 2014
End Date
11 May 2014
Venue
Kunsthal Rotterdam
Location
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Curator
Kenneth Ramaekers and Inge Specht
Designer
Lien Wauters
In collaboration with
Modemuseum, Hasselt
Exhibition display of shoes on boxes

2021

Shoephoria!

Start Date
18 May 2021
End Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Fashion Museum
Location
Bath, UK
Curator
Rosemary Harden

2019

Accents of Style

Start Date
15 November 2019
End Date
02 February 2020
Venue
Armani Silos
Location
Milan, Italy
Curator
Gorgio Armani

2013

My Favourite Shoe

Start Date
11 September 2013
End Date
20 September 2013
Venue
Westfield London
Location
London, UK

Shoe Zoo

Start Date
10 August 2013
End Date
13 October 2013
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

Strictly Shoes

Start Date
05 October 2013
End Date
12 January 2014
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2016

Fashions of Southern Africa

Start Date
26 August 2016
End Date
02 July 2017
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA
Curator
Sara Hume
Designer
Jim Williams
Curatorial work and co-ordination:
Allana Finley in South Africa and Lynette Diergaardt in Namibia.

2021

Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes to Toe

Start Date
07 February 2021
End Date
06 June 2021
Venue
Taft Museum of Art
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Curator
Ann Glasscock
Organized by:
New York Historical Society, Taft Museum of Art

2019

Form & Function: Shoe Art by Chris Francis

Start Date
13 August 2019
End Date
31 December 2019
Venue
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of multi-coloured shoe

2014

Kobi and the Playful World of Shoes

Start Date
24 May 2014
End Date
20 July 2014
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2015

Life On Foot: Camper at the Design Museum

Start Date
13 May 2015
End Date
01 November 2015
Venue
Design Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Pete Collard and Anniina Koivu
Designer
Universal Design Studio
Exhibition display of rows of shoes

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

Start Date
13 June 2015
End Date
31 January 2016
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Curator
Helen Persson
Exhibition display of shoes

2021

These Shoes Were Made for Walking

Start Date
09 January 2021
End Date
28 February 2021
Venue
Ayers House Museum
Location
Adelaide, Australia

2011

The Royal Wedding Dress: A Story of Great British Design

Start Date
22 July 2011
End Date
03 October 2011
Venue
Buckingham Palace
Location
London, UK

2014

Recollect Shoes

Start Date
29 November 2014
End Date
09 July 2015
Venue
Powerhouse Museum
Location
Sydney, Australia
Curator
Melanie Pitkin
Exhibition display of shoes

2013

RetroSpective

Start Date
22 May 2013
End Date
16 November 2013
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Jennifer Farley
Textiles by Lynn Weidner and accessories by Colleen Hill

2021

Dai Fujiwara: The Road of My Cyber Physical Hands

Start Date
10 February 2021
End Date
28 March 2021
Venue
Hong Kong Design Institute Gallery
Location
Hong Kong
Curator
Dai Fujiwara

2013

Boots: The Height of Fashion

Start Date
05 March 2013
End Date
06 April 2013
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Fashion and Textile Studies M.A. students at FIT's School of Graduate Studies with The Museum at FIT

2016

A Century of Shoes: The Rise and Fall of the Georgian Heel

Start Date
10 March 2016
End Date
26 June 2016
Venue
Fairfax House
Location
York, UK

2017

A Personal Collection of Vivienne Westwood’s Shoes

Start Date
17 June 2017
End Date
17 September 2017
Venue
Pickford’s House, Derby Museums
Location
Derby, UK

2020

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

Start Date
19 December 2020
End Date
06 June 2021
Venue
Sea World Culture and Arts Center/Design Society
Location
Shenzhen, China
Curator
Edwina Ehrmann and Edith Cheung Sai May
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Genesis: Designer shoes of the future

Start Date
19 December 2015
End Date
17 April 2016
Venue
Erarta Museum
Location
St. Petersburg, Russia

La Mode Retrouvée: Les Robes Trésors de la Comtesse Greffulhe (Fashion Regained: The treasured dresses of Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe)

Start Date
07 November 2015
End Date
20 March 2016
Venue
Palais Galliera
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear From Around the Globe

Start Date
01 January 2018
End Date
31 December 2018
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2015

The Rise of Sneaker Culture (Touring)

Start Date
10 July 2015
End Date
04 October 2015
Venue
Brooklyn Museum
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack and Lisa Small

2016

Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe (Touring)

Start Date
23 September 2016
End Date
07 January 2017
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Olivier Saillard and Valerie Steele

2019

WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era Footwear

Start Date
20 January 2019
End Date
30 March 2020
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2011

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

Start Date
25 October 2011
End Date
22 April 2012
Venue
Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)
Location
New York, USA

2019

Art & Innovation: Traditional Arctic Footwear from the Bata Shoe Museum Collection

Start Date
06 July 2019
End Date
31 December 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Exhibition display of plinths

2017

The Rise of Sneaker Culture (touring)

Start Date
13 May 2017
End Date
05 September 2017
Venue
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Location
Perth, Australia
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack and Robert Cook

2016

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (touring)

Start Date
22 December 2016
End Date
02 April 2017
Venue
Oakland Museum of California
Location
Oakland, USA
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2018

The Sandal

Start Date
01 June 2018
End Date
13 October 2018
Venue
Eretz Israel Museum
Location
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Curator
Tamara El-or

2016

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (touring)

Start Date
10 September 2016
End Date
27 November 2016
Venue
Speed Art Museum
Location
Louisville, USA
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (touring)

Start Date
11 June 2016
End Date
14 August 2016
Venue
High Museum of Art
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

Laboratory 12

Start Date
22 April 2016
End Date
15 July 2016
Venue
Fashion Space Gallery
Location
London, UK
Curator
Benjamin John Hall
Designer
Steven Legget
Graphic Designer
Nikos Georgopoulos
Exhibition display of shoes on plinths

2012

Roger Vivier: Process to Perfection

Start Date
09 May 2012
End Date
07 April 2013
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Exhibition display of footwear and imagery

Christian Louboutin: 20 Years

Start Date
01 May 2012
End Date
09 July 2012
Venue
The Design Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Donna Loveday
Designer
Designed to Win
Exhibition display of footwear

2019

An Enquiring Mind:
Manolo Blahnik

Start Date
10 June 2019
End Date
07 October 2019
Venue
The Wallace Collection
Location
London, UK
Curator
Xavier Bray and Manolo Blahnik
Designer
Nissen Richards Studio
Exhibition display of shoes in glass domes in room hung with paintings

2014

Man in Progress: 20 years of Men’s Fashion and 20 Years of GQ

Start Date
26 September 2014
End Date
11 January 2015
Venue
Museo Del Traje
Location
Madrid, Spain
Curator
Marta Blanco and José Luis Díez Carpenter Garde
Designer
Gonzalo Fonseca

2013

Shoe Obsession

Start Date
08 February 2013
End Date
13 April 2013
Venue
Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill

The Amazing Shoe-maker

Start Date
19 April 2013
End Date
31 March 2014
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Stefania Ricci, Sergio Risaliti, Luca Scarlini

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Start Date
25 April 2013
End Date
30 March 2014
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Exhibition display with shoes on round plinths

2019

Worn by the Gods.
The Art of shoemaking in the ancient world,
the epic movie and contemporary fashion

Start Date
16 December 2019
End Date
25 September 2020
Venue
Palazzo Pitti, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Lorenza Camin, Caterina Chiarelli and Fabrizio Paolucci

2014

Made in Britain: Walsh Trainers

Start Date
31 January 2014
End Date
17 May 2014
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK

2015

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (touring)

Start Date
03 December 2015
End Date
28 February 2016
Venue
Toledo Museum of Art
Location
Toledo, USA
Curator
Halona Norton-Westbrook

Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels

Start Date
08 May 2015
End Date
01 May 2016
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Ontario, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Exhibition display with shoes on plinths and images

Footprint: The Tracks of Shoes in Fashion

Start Date
03 September 2015
End Date
14 February 2016
Venue
MoMu
Location
Antwerp, Belgium
Curator
Karen Van Godtsenhoven & Geert Bruloot
Designer
Scenographer Geert Bruloot
Exhibition display of shoes on plinths

2009

Bound for Glory: Cutting Edge Winter Sports Footwear

Start Date
01 March 2009
End Date
01 March 2010
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque High Heels

Start Date
01 November 2009
End Date
20 September 2010
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

2016

Sneaker: Design for Fast Feet

Start Date
13 May 2016
End Date
30 October 2016
Venue
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Location
Hamburg, Germany

2013

Treading goals. History of sports shoes

Start Date
08 July 2013
End Date
22 September 2013
Venue
Museo Del Traje
Location
Madrid, Spain

2011

Shoes

Start Date
11 May 2011
End Date
12 July 2011
Venue
Selfridges
Location
London, UK
Curator
Judith Clark
Commissioned by
The new Shoe Department in Selfridges
Exhibition display with ankle boot

2018

I Do! Wedding Dresses over 250 years

Start Date
25 April 2018
End Date
07 July 2018
Venue
Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery
Location
Basingstoke, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Vivienne Westwood Shoes. A worldwide exhibition

Start Date
10 June 2011
End Date
10 July 2011
Venue
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Location
Teesdale, UK

2018

Inside Arc

Start Date
11 May 2018
End Date
28 July 2018
Venue
Fashion Space Gallery
Location
London, UK
Curator
Polona Dolžan
Designer
Jennefer Osterhoudt and Nick Royal
Commissioned by
Ligaya Salazar
Graphic Design
Dennis McInnes
Build by
Robin Shepherd
Exhibition display of clothes mounted on stands and open drawers

2015

Rayne, Shoes for Stars

Start Date
22 May 2015
End Date
13 September 2015
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK

2012

Dress the World: The World at Your Feet

Start Date
31 March 2012
End Date
23 September 2012
Venue
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location
Northampton, UK

Shoemaking

Start Date
01 November 2012
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

2010

Shoes in Art – Art in Shoes

Start Date
01 October 2010
End Date
01 April 2012
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

1974

De Schoenen van Jan Jansen 1964–1974 (Jan Jansen Shoes 1964–1974)

Start Date
21 August 1974
End Date
06 October 1974
Venue
Centraal Museum
Location
Utrecht, The Netherlands

2010

Roaring Twenties: Heels, Hemlines and High Spirits

Start Date
01 April 2010
End Date
01 October 2012
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

2019

Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes

Start Date
16 May 2018
End Date
06 January 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
exhibition display of shoes in several glass cases in gallery

2023

La Mode en mouvement (Fashion on the move – 3 displays)

Start Date
16 June 2023
End Date
07 September 2025
Venue
Palais Galliera
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Miren Arzalluz and Marie-Laure Gutton
The Palais Galliera traces the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present. Male and female grey 18th century clothes.

1998

Cinderella: The Shoe Rediscovered

Start Date
20 September 1998
End Date
22 November 1998
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Michael Howells, Jenny Beavan and Stefania Ricci

2004

A Love Affair with Shoes

Start Date
01 January 1970
End Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Stefania Ricci

2019

Sustainable Thinking

Start Date
12 April 2019
End Date
08 March 2019
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Giusy Bettoni, Arabella S. Natalini, Stefania Ricci, Sara Sozzani Maino and Marina Spadafora
Exhibition display of shoes

2008

Salvatore Ferragamo Evolving Legend 1928-2008

Start Date
30 March 2008
End Date
07 May 2008
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Stefania Ricci and Cristina Morozzi
Red shoes on display

2021

Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street

Start Date
18 May 2021
End Date
24 October 2021
Venue
Design Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Ligaya Salazar
Exhibition display of trainers and sportswear with person viewing

2020

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

Start Date
01 December 2020
End Date
01 June 2021
Venue
China Silk Museum
Location
Hangzhou, China
Curator
Edwina Ehrmann
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Inspiration and Vision

Start Date
27 May 2011
End Date
12 March 2012
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Stefania Ricci and Sergio Risaliti
Exhibition display of shoes with stuffed birds on metal plinths

2010

The Sons of St Crispin: The History of the Boot and Shoe Trade Unions

Start Date
11 September 2010
End Date
06 February 2011
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2000

Shoes and Famous Feet

Start Date
01 January 1970
End Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location
Florence, Italy
Curator
Stefania Ricci

2015

Sport to Street: The History of the Training Shoe

Start Date
15 January 2015
End Date
03 July 2015
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2013

The Ideal Shoe

Start Date
27 March 2010
End Date
13 June 2010
Venue
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location
Northampton, UK

2023

Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style

Start Date
01 February 2023
End Date
01 April 2023
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Co-curated by Elena Romero and Elizabeth Way

2010

Scandal Sandals and Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

Start Date
09 March 2010
End Date
28 December 2025
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Sarah Byrd and Laura Mina
Designer
Nicole Bloomfield with Julia Carlson (design assistant)

2008

Sole Desire: The Shoes of Christian Louboutin

Start Date
13 March 2008
End Date
19 April 2008
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Whitney A. Jones and Julie Ann Orsini
Designer
Alyssa Panetta and George W. Veale VI

2010

Interview with a Shoe

Start Date
23 January 2010
End Date
21 March 2010
Venue
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location
Northampton, UK

1985

Leaders of Fashion: Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960)

Start Date
01 January 1970
End Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Florence Exhibition Centre
Location
Florence, Italy

1992

The Art of the Shoe (Touring)

Start Date
01 January 1970
End Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Los Angeles County Museum
Location
Los Angeles, USA

1998

The Art of the Shoe (Touring)

Start Date
14 April 1998
End Date
14 May 1998
Venue
Sogetsu-kai Foundation
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Curator
Stefania Ricci and Gian Carlo Calza
Exhibition display of branches displaying shoes

2003

Starstruck: A Celebrity Shoe Soirée

Start Date
01 March 2003
End Date
01 August 2004
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Designer
Toboggan Design
Design collaborator:
Atelier du presse-citron Fabricator: Holman Exhibits
Exhibition with shoes on display against a backdrop of celebrity cutout silhouettes

2021

Oceanista – Fashion & the Sea

Start Date
02 April 2021
End Date
29 August 2021
Venue
M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark
Location
Elsinore, Denmark
Curator
The Maritime Museum of Denmark in collaboration with fashion researcher Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Designer
Julian Juhlin
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinth among seaweed-like plants

2011

A Vision of Fashion

Start Date
25 June 2011
End Date
04 September 2011
Venue
Kyoto Costume Institute at the Contemporary Art Museum
Location
Kumamoto, Japan
Curator
Takeshi Sakurai, Akiko Fukai
mannequins next to TVs

2021

Marina Dempster & Meera Sethi: In Visible

Start Date
01 January 2021
End Date
31 May 2021
Venue
Art Gallery of Burlington
Location
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Curator
Hitoko Okada
Exhibition with two standing glass cabinets displaying footwear, and two painting displayed on separate walls.

2012

A Shoe Story

Start Date
23 May 2012
End Date
16 June 2012
Venue
Manama Mall
Location
Bahrain
Curator
Fashion History Museum

2018

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

Start Date
24 February 2018
End Date
13 May 2018
Venue
The Steele Gallery & Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location
Phoenix, USA
Curator
Sarah Schleuning, Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp
Exhibition with mannequins on a long plinth all facing the same direction displaying Iris Van Herpen garments.

2022

Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic

Start Date
01 September 2022
End Date
31 December 2022
Venue
Museum at FIT
Location
New York City, U.S.A
Curator
Dr Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
A sitting mannequin in front of a low-placed mirror to examine her shoes, in front of a display wall of shoes

2019

The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear from Around the Globe

Start Date
12 August 2019
End Date
19 December 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2023

Head to Toe

Start Date
02 February 2023
End Date
23 July 2023
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, Ohio, USA

2010

Socks: Between You and Your Shoes

Start Date
07 April 2010
End Date
01 April 2011
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2023

Dressed to Impress: Footwear and Consumerism in the 1980s

Start Date
01 November 2023
End Date
16 March 2025
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Nishi Bassi
A gallery display with the phrase 'Pump It Up' in 80s-style font

Obsessed: How Shoes Became Objects of Desire

Start Date
19 October 2022
End Date
24 April 2024
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2014

Fashion Victims: The Pleasures & Perils of Dress in the 19th Century

Start Date
18 June 2014
End Date
01 June 2016
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack and Dr. Alison Matthews David

2020

The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment

Start Date
12 August 2020
End Date
27 March 2023
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2016

A Walk in Her Shoes

Start Date
11 October 2016
End Date
15 January 2017
Venue
The Esse Purse Museum
Location
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Exhibition vitrine display of shoes