Shoe desighns by Beth Levine

 this shoe gave the appearance of the wearer standing barefoot in the forest by this characteristically ironic design. Levine used surrealist imagery, including plastic grass, race cars, and sports equipment, in several of her well known designs. A version of Levine’s infamous “topless shoe”, this shoe would have been secured to the foot with adhesive pads.



 Beth was the top female shoe designer of the 20th century. Levine was particularly adept at predicting future trends and devising structural innovations.  the stocking shoe, and the topless shoe. These boundary-breaking innovations earned Levine a Coty award 1967.
 info from Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Beth Levine in memory of her husband, Herbert, 1994