Elizabeth Semmelhack

In line with popular titles like Where’d You Get Those? by sneaker-legend Bobbito Garcia, Out of the Box offers all the high-gloss collaborations a collector could want in one place, fleshed out with new history and interviews with street culture greats. This visual history of one of the world’s most coveted accessories, Out of the Box celebrates the rise of...

Born in 1907, Roger Vivier was known and loved for the daring and lavish shoes he designed over the course of a seven-decade career. He created iconic models such as the pilgrim shoes worn by Catherine Deneuve in 1967 for Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour, the virgule heel, and the rectangular chrome buckle. The designer closed his business before he...

A new history of cowboy boots explores the art of a Western classic and American icon. This book examines the history, beauty, and cultural meanings of the cowboy boot from its inception just after the Civil War to its use today. Rough and Ready is structured around five chapters that include interviews and contributions from a diverse array of boot...

We all make choices every day about which shoes to wear, but why do we choose the shoes we do? Organised around four main types - boots, sneakers, high heels and sandals - Shoes: The Meaning of Style explores the history of shoes and how different types of footwear have come to mean different things about the people who wear...

Shoe design is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in both the real and virtual worlds through state-of-the-art technologies, ground-breaking materials, and new and innovative ways of thinking about what a shoe can be. New modes of thinking are reshaping how we conceive the intersection of fashion, design, and functionality. In Future Now by Elizabeth Semmelhack, the exploration of...