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Vara

Shoe
1986 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Salvatore Ferragamo SpA (designer)
Place of origin
Italy (made)

Pump shoe.

Object details

Categories
Fashion
Footwear
Accessories
Womenswear
Europeana Fashion Project
Object type
Shoe
TitleVara (assigned by artist)
Brief description
Pump shoe 'Vara', designed by Salvatore Ferragamo Company, Italy, 1986
Physical description
Pump shoe.
Gallery label
(05/04/2014-27/07/2014)
Label for the exhibition: "The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014"

LEATHER SHOES
Salvatore Ferragamo, 1986
Leather, with cotton grosgrain bow
Salvatore Ferragamo’s intention in the 1920s was to make (in his words) ‘handmade shoes by mass production’. By the 1980s the quality of his machine-produced goods saw the company continuing to flourish under his widow, Wanda Ferragamo. The two shoe designs here are classic styles which feature discrete elements of decoration such as delicate inserts of silvered leather and a logo’d fabric bow.
GIVEN BY WANDA FERRAGAMO
V&A: T.92, 91-1988
Credit line
Given by Wanda Ferragamo
Object history
Registered File number 1988/276.
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.91-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O365885/vara-shoe-salvatore-ferragamo-spa/
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