These Shoes are Made for Walking: Fashion as Female Empowerment Artist Reception

Cozy slippers or kinky boots: If the shoe fits, wear it. This month, the Loading Dock Gallery explores the closeted meanings of contemporary woman’s footwear. Whether you think that high heels are modern foot-binding or feminine weapons, These Shoes are Made for Walking: Fashion as Female Empowerment challenges assumptions with new ways of looking at fashion.

Curator artist Renee Mallet worked in fashion journalism for many years. “I’ve always loved how fashion has been used by women to influence and reflect the world around them.” Modern women face a range of possibilities. Clothing reflects personal choice as well as cultural and historical assumptions. At These Shoes are Made for Walking you will ask, what does fashion say about contemporary women’s lives?