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From platform shoes made in the 1600s to modern day stilettos, the Killer Heels collection uncovers the mystique of designer...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eA new exhibition in New York examines the love affair women have had over the centuries for killer heels. \u003cbr/\u003eFrom platform shoes made in the 1600s to modern day stilettos, the Killer Heels collection uncovers the mystique of designer footwear. \u003cbr/\u003eKiller Heels - the title says it all. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's the name of a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that looks at the elevated shoe as a design object. From platforms dating to about 1600 to a contemporary lethal 8-inch dagger stiletto, there's even a gravity-defying skyscraper platform embraced by Lady Gaga.\u003cbr/\u003eThese are not made for walking - not easily anyway.\u003cbr/\u003eIterations of the elevated heel - a signifier of sexiness, femininity, glamour and status through the ages - fill the display cases of the exhibition. \u003cbr/\u003eThere are triangle and ball-shaped heels, twisted, curled, trapezoidal and even furry variations.\u003cbr/\u003eBy and large, design trumps comfort in these 178 creations.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe\" opens Wednesday and runs through February 15.\u003cbr/\u003eThe earliest examples date to about 1550 - high platforms called chopines made of wood or cork worn by both noblewomen and courtesans of Renaissance Venice. They were used to suggest a taller and elongated figure.\u003cbr/\u003eBut elevated footwear can be traced to the 1st century B.C. The exhibition features a picture of a statue of the Goddess Aphrodite teetering on high platform sandals. \u003cbr/\u003e\"My goal was to bring together a group of historical and contemporary high heel shoes that spoke to all the amazing designs that we have seen over centuries,\" says Lisa Small, the museum's curator of exhibitions. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have a lot of moments where we have shoes that are from the last couple of years juxtaposed with shoes from the 18th century, or even the 16th century, the point being to show these relationships across time, across cultures, and show these really vivid designs.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSmall says the show includes conceptual designs, including the Iris Van \"Beyond Wilderness\" shoe: \"It's a 3-D printed shoe and it's a whole mass of tendrils that either look like they're emerging from the ground, or they're part of the foot that's turning into a plant. They're in the metamorphosis section, naturally. 3-D printed, really incredible, again, nothing you would associate with a typical shoe.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe exhibition is arranged into six themes including Revival and Reinterpretation, Glamour and Fetish and Space Walk. Contemporary designs are juxtaposed with earlier iterations to show the relationship across time and cultures.\u003cbr/\u003eOne standout in the show, if only because of its bizarre concept, is a Japanese design created after the Fukushima nuclear accident.\u003cbr/\u003eIts designers constructed a shoe with a mechanism that contains seeds of a plant with properties that leech contaminants from the soil. As you walk, the seeds are planted into the soil through the high heel, \"the idea being that the plant will grow and help repair the soil,\" says Small.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the historical pieces is an elaborate wood sandal worn by women in bathhouses of the Ottoman Empire to keep their feet high above the wet floors. There's also a Japanese Geta, or clog, worn by elite courtesans that's so high they had to walk in a figure-8 pattern.\u003cbr/\u003eThere are sensible heels too, including 18th-century slippers worn by aristocratic women that are beautifully embroidered or done in brocade fabric.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I would love is for people to come away with the idea that something like high heels, which in some ways we take for granted as just part of the regular costume of some people, is that they are a very interesting lens, actually, through which to look at history,\" says Small.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, September 4, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide pan: Killer Heels exhibit signage\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid: shoes in display case\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt up: Christian Louboutin \"Printz\" heels, Spring/Summer 2013-2014\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum: \u003cbr/\u003e\"In 'Killer Heels' my goal was to bring together historical and contemporary high heeled shoes that really spoke to all of the amazing designs that we've seen over centuries really in these shoes, so I've sort of started at the 17th century, 16th-17th century, and gone right up to the present day. including stilettos, wedges, platforms, all of the iterations of what we're calling the elevated shoe.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide pan: exhibit\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid: Zaha Hadid \"NOVA\" heels, 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e7. Tilt up: Matilda Maroti \"Mother of Pearl\" heels, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The exhibition is arranged in six thematic categories. We decided not to do it chronologically and it's not by designer. So we have a lot of moments where we have shoes that are from the last couple of years juxtaposed with shoes from the 18th century, or even the 16th century, the point being to show these relationships across time, across cultures, and show these really vivid designs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid: Christian Louboutin, \"Marie-Antoinette\" heels, Fall/Winter 2008-2009\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tight: details on shoe, Christian Louboutin, \"Marie-Antoinette\" heels, Fall/Winter 2008-2009\u003cbr/\u003e11. Tight pan: unknown Italian artist, Chopines shoes, 1550-1650\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well definitely the Chopines, the Italian Chopines, which date from about 1550-1600, those are the earliest shoes in the exhibition. And I think it's wonderful to have them here because it shows that sometimes what we think of as being modern and up to date, kind of high platform shoes, is actually a really old form. Platforms have been around even longer than the Chopines, they date back to the first century B.C., if not even longer ago.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid: unknown Italian artist, Chopines shoes, 1600\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tight pan: unknown Italian artist, Chopines shoes, 1600\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum: \u003cbr/\u003e\"From a contemporary standpoint, one of the highlights for me, or several of the highlights for me, there's a shoe by an artist by the name of Sputniko which is right over here actually, and it's a shoe that she designed as part of a project called 'Healing Fukushima'. And she, working with another designer who's in the show, Masaya Kushino who's in the show, they constructed this pair of shoes that has a mechanism in it, it contains seeds of a plant that have properties that leach contaminants from the soil. And as you walk in the shoes, the seeds are planted down into the soil, through the high heel, the idea being that the plant would grow in the contaminated soil and sort of help repair it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid: Sputniko, Masaya Kushino \"Healing Fukushima (Nanohana Heels)\", 2012\u003cbr/\u003e17. Tight tilt up: Sputniko, Masaya Kushino \"Healing Fukushima (Nanohana Heels)\", 2012\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid: video clip of \"Healing Fukushima (Nanohana Heels)\", 2012\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a 3-D printed shoe and it's a whole mass of tendrils that either look like they're emerging from the ground, or they're part of the foot that's turning into a plant. They're in the metamorphosis section, naturally. 3-D printed, really incredible, again, nothing you would associate with a typical shoe.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid: Iris Van Herpen, United Nude \"Beyond Wilderness\" shoe, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tight tilt up: black Iris Van Herpen, United Nude \"Beyond Wilderness\" shoe, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e22. Tight tilt up: white Iris Van Herpen, United Nude \"Beyond Wilderness\" shoe, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Small, Curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I would love is for people to come away with the idea that something like high heels, which in some ways we take for granted as just part of the regular costume of some people, is that they are a very interesting lens, actually, through which to look at history. They say a lot about gender, about class, even about trade and exchange throughout history so they're really wonderful objects about material culture, as well as some of them being beautiful eye candy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. 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