Walking in Marilyn’s shoes ...
IT IS said that Marilyn Monroe had her shoes made with one heel half an inch shorter than the other, to create her distinctive wiggle. But on the evidence of the many pairs of shoes exhibited at Marilyn, a fascinating exhibition at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Monroe’s seductive walk was her own. The Florentine shoemaker made the star’s shoes for many of her movies, including a pair of red stilettos covered in Swarovski crystals that had every female visitor to the exhibition swooning. The heels are both four inches high.
Ferragamo wrote that the “women who come to me can be divided into the Cinderella, the aristocrat, and the Venus ... Venus is usually a great beauty, of glamour and sophistication, yet under a glittering exterior she is often a homebody, loving simple things.”
