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The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and our mailbox filled with loads of material on fantastic shoes, art and design on shoes.
And finally, with the help of Taco Zwaanswijk of Interactive Affairs, who designed the site, and Bart van der Ploeg of Resolume, who programmed the database and created the content management system, we're live! And proud! And we're only just beginning...
If you have any questions about the collection, or leads on shoes or designers, please let us know. Also, we're interested in your opinion on the collection and your experiences in the museum. You can contact the Virtual Shoe Museum by mail: Liza@VirtualShoeMuseum.com.
The Virtual Shoe Museum has different 'perspectives' on a shoe or object. These perspectives (designer, focus, colour, material, etc) show related objects and thus ways to navigate the collection.
The left column of the screen contains the main navigation. Each perspective contains several 'rooms'. Each room contains thumbnails of the objects it contains (on the right side of the screen). Choose any to view this object.
On an object's page, below the image, you can view more images, video and text (if available). Above the thumbnails, you find a list showing all the rooms this object belongs to. Here you can wander the rooms and find related objects.
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Good morning,
I only just discovered your site. I found the website address in a paper in Geneva. It's absolutely fantastic. Are some of these shoes actually real, like can we buy them? It's absolutely terrible for women to look at this site without being able to actually buy them. I will play the euro million this weekend, and when I win, I would love to produce shoes like this and open up a massive shop in the middle of geneva and have literally one size of all the shoes that are on your site. Women's dreamworld coming through. Yes.......
Well done
Lily
(now that's what we like to hear ;-) Have fun y'all in the museum, Liza Snook
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