Tokio Kumagai: Shoes to eat

Tokio Kumagai Shoes to eat

Clockwise: ice-cream sundae shoes, meat shoes, red-bean rice shoes. Before Lady Gaga's meat dress, there were Tokio Kumagai's meat shoes. Shoe designer Tokio Kumagai first produced his Shoes to eat (Taberu kutsu) series in 1982, reviving Elsa Schiaparelli's trompe l'oeil technique from the 1930s. As the title would suggest, the shoes were not edible. Kumagai ... Read more