Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes: 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva - Derham Groves - Books - Culicidae Press, LLC - 9780615860688 - August 6, 2013
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Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes: 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva

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Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes: 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva

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.?

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 6, 2013
ISBN13 9780615860688
Publishers Culicidae Press, LLC
Pages 104
Dimensions 216 × 216 × 7 mm   ·   199 g
Language English  
Contributor Elaine Mae Woo
Contributor Huey Groves
Contributor Lee McRae

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