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2023

Head to Toe

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

2014

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

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

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

2010

Socks: Between You and Your Shoes

Start Date 7 April 2010
End Date April 2011
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

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

2023

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

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

2014

The Anatomy of a Suit

Start Date 01 January 2014
End Date 01 June 2014
Venue Museum of London
Location London, UK
Curator Timothy Long

2006

Sueños que caminan / Walking Dreams. Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960

Start Date 2006
End Date 2006
Venue Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Exhibition display of plinths from above, interspersed with screens and some with shoes visible

2020

Playground – The Design of Sneakers

Start Date 26 June 2020
End Date 07 March 2021
Venue Musée du Design
Location Bordeaux, France
Curator Constance Rubini
Designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Arthur Fosse
Exhibition display of trainers in a triangle-shaped plinth

2014

Intimate

Start Date 05 March 2014
End Date 19 May 2014
Venue Musée du Design
Location Bordeaux, France
Curator Caroline Fillon
Exhibition display of shoes with stuffed birds on metal plinths

2023

In Bloom: Flowers and Footwear

Start Date 20 April 2023
End Date 06 October 2024
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain

1996

Fashion Afoot: 1980s to Now

Start Date 09 February 1996
End Date 03 February 1997
Venue National Gallery of Australia
Location Kamberri/Canberra, Australia

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

Manolo Bahnik: 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

2003

Starstruck: A Celebrity Shoe Soirée

Start Date March 2003
End Date 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.

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.

Guo Pei: Couture Beyond

Start Date 07 September 2019
End Date 04 March 2018
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Exhibition with two mannequins displaying Guo Pei garments.

2012

A Shoe Story

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

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

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

2000

Shoes and Famous Feet

Start Date 2000
End Date 2000
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci

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

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

Scandal Sandals and Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

Start Date 09 March 2010
End Date 0 3 April 2010
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Sarah Byrd and Laura Mina
Designer Nicole Bloomfield with Julia Carlson (design assistant)

1985

Leaders of Fashion: Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960)

Start Date 1985
End Date 1985
Venue Florence Exhibition Centre
Location Florence, Italy

2010

Interview with a Shoe

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

1992

The Art of the Shoe (Touring)

Start Date 1992
End Date 1992
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

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 2004
End Date 2005
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci

2019

Sustainable Thinking

Start Date 12 April 2019
End Date 8 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

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

2020

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

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

2013

Strictly Shoes

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

Shoe Zoo

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

My Favourite Shoe

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

2019

Accents of Style

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

2021

Shoephoria!

Start Date 18 May 2021
End Date 2022
Venue Fashion Museum
Location Bath, UK
Curator Rosemary Harden

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

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

2013

Last Man Standing: Springline Shoe Lasts

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

2012

Head over Heels

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

2013

Footsteps Through History

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

‘She Walks In Beauty’: 60 Years Of Dal Co. Shoes

Start Date 20 April 2013
End Date 23 June 2013
Venue Northampton Museum
Location Northampton, UK

2002

Jan Jansen – Master of Shoe Design

Start Date 09 February 2002
End Date 26 February 2002
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location The Hague, Netherlands

2017

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain (touring)

Start Date 11 April 2017
End Date 13 August 2017
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, USA
Curator Helen Persson, with Alexandra Sachs and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of footwear

2013

Shoe Heaven: Shoes From Southend Museum’s Collection

Start Date 02 February 2013
End Date 29 June 2013
Venue Central Museum
Location Southend on Sea, UK

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

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.

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

2014

Kobi and the Playful World of Shoes

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

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

2015

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

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

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

2015

Genesis: Designer shoes of the future

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels

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

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

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

On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque High Heels

Start Date 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