Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva |
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Author:
| Groves, Derham |
Cover Design by:
| Groves, Huey |
Prologue by:
| Woo, Elaine |
Photographer:
| McRae, Lee |
ISBN: | 978-0-615-86068-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Culicidae Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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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 thebeautiful and intriguing Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong performed at the Tivoli Theatres in Melbourne and Sydney. [...] Wong was a fashionista of her day....
More DescriptionAustralian 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 thebeautiful 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-roomwas 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."