Killer heels

KILLER HEELS (TACCHI, ASSASSINI)

This month the Brooklyn Museum in New York begins its Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe exhibit.The show features (presenta) more than 160 experimental high heels from the seventeenth century through the present.

“The high heel, as object as well as symbol, is an icon in popular culture,” says Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum. “There’s a lot of great history there to explore,