What is it about red shoes? I begin to answer this question in a paper about red shoes, where I link red shoes with myths, fashion, and the self. This was published in 2009 as ‘Red shoes and glass slippers: linking fashion and myth’ (UK) Textile: the Journal
of Cloth and Culture Vol.7 (2) pp164-177
I presented my early work on red shoes in a conference paper in May 2007 at the Fashion in Fiction Conference in Sydney, and generated considerable media attention. I was interviewed on Australian National Radio, Dunedin’s Channel 9, New Zealand newspapers, and Next magazine. I am still working on the book…