| Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes: 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva Contributor(s): Groves, Huey (Illustrator), Woo, Elaine Mae (Introduction by), McRae, Lee (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0615860680 ISBN-13: 9780615860688 Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLC OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Textile & Costume |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (0.44 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |