Another affectionate reader or mine (my friend Barbara again) asked me how to solve the problem of shoes at home. The question isn't absolutely to be underestimated, I mean, normally a woman has so many shoes that she would need a storeroom, not to speak of the great collectors such as Imelda Marcos that had 3500 pairs.
The mythical scene of Carrie (the protagonist in the tv series “Sex and the City”) comes to my mind, when she's looking for a new apartment and, as they show her a tiny closet with no space for the shoes, she's at the point of fainting!
It is to be said that with shoes you can not just walk, but you can do a lot of intersting things; recently I happened to see Chiharu Shiota's work, that is an urban façade; beautiful indeed!
The mythical scene of Carrie (the protagonist in the tv series “Sex and the City”) comes to my mind, when she's looking for a new apartment and, as they show her a tiny closet with no space for the shoes, she's at the point of fainting!
It is to be said that with shoes you can not just walk, but you can do a lot of intersting things; recently I happened to see Chiharu Shiota's work, that is an urban façade; beautiful indeed!
If you have too many shoes, think of how to eliminate a few, perhaps transforming them.
But pay attention at what shoes you're going to eliminate, there are some “historical” that the collectors would pay thousands of dollars for; the mythical “red shoes” that Judy Garland was wearing in “The Wizard of Oz”have been remade, completely covered with rubies and are worth 3.000.000 dollars.
Not to speak of Cinderella's shoes: they have been remade by several designers, among which the Martin Margiela Maison, that has realised them like in the “original design”, all in glass, and by the great fashion designer Louboutin in a more comfortable version!
If you own these kinds of shoes, you are definitely ready to use a system of “show” organization, various kinds are proposed, with small bars, ribbons and frames. If you don't know where to start, the website www.framesbymail will suggest you what kind of frame you can use!
A semi-visible organization system has been studied as “do it yourself” and proposed by Ronique Gibson in an article published by stagetecture.com; plain pvc pipes cut and glued:
In case you want order and cleanliness, there are plenty of sites that propose the classical shoe racks revisited with a touch of design
http://fashionforhome.co.uk/shoe-rackshttp://www.johannaeliason.com/skorderl.html
My solution? A mirror that hides a whole shoe rack!!
It's by Kristalia and you can find it on the website http://shop.mohd.it/it/Nice!!!
Stay tuned
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