Art Shoes

Twenty years ago, Veerle Swenters and Pierre Bogaerts started writing what would be over 1,000 letters to artists, requesting – their shoes. After hours and hours and hours of toiling and begging, these Dutch shoe collectors amassed quite a collection (of specatular espadrilles - and other great togs). Check it – and others of ethnic footwear and designers own shoes – on Shoes or No Shoes.  Above: Peter Collien, Germany. (Many thanks to reader David Williams for the heads up! So cool!)

Manilo Caropreso, Italy

Eva Lootz, Spain

Curtis Anderson, Germany

David Nash, UK

Daniel Dezeuze, France

Hannes Vogel, Switzerland