iMuseo del TrajeCiudad Universitaria
La moda a tus pies
A dialogue between Spanish fashion history and contemporary footwear: 35 showcases of the permanent collection paired with new shoe designs.
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Preview: written before the show opened
In one case, Paco Rabanne's 1967 minidress of aluminium plates linked with rings stands beside a sandal studded with metal hemispheres, made by Monami with the artist Teresa de la Pisa. That's the method here: 40 Spanish shoe brands each took a piece from the museum's collection and designed a new pair from it.
There's no separate gallery. The shoes go into 35 display cases along the first-floor permanent route, which runs from the 18th century to now, so you walk the museum's usual history of Spanish dress with your eyes dropping to ankle height in every case. Craftspeople added lace, embroidery, silk flowers, fur and sculpture: the embroiderer Paquili stitched sterling silver onto a green silk shoe that answers a 19th-century bullfighter's suit.
It is part of Madrid Design Festival. Entry is the museum's standard €3 ticket, free on Saturdays from 14:30 and all day Sunday, and the ticket desk stops selling 15 minutes before closing.
Look for
Paco Rabanne's metal minidress
Look for the 1967 dress of aluminium plates and steel discs joined by rings, next to Monami and Teresa de la Pisa's sandal studded with metal hemispheres.
The bullfighter's suit in silver
A 19th-century traje de luces embroidered in silver is answered by Magrit's green silk shoe, hand-embroidered in sterling silver by Francisco Carrera Iglesias, known as Paquili.
Fortuny's Delphos gown
The grey pleated-silk Delphos dress from about 1909, long-sleeved with a boat neck, is paired with a braided leather sandal with ceramic details by Pons Quintana.
The Manila shawl and the flower boot
A 1900 raw-silk shawl embroidered with flowers and Chinese motifs inspired a nude kitten-heel ankle boot covered in handmade pink and violet silk flowers, by Monami and Mariana Barturen.
A three-year-old's dress from 1780
Feroz, a barefoot-shoe brand, took the colours and bows of a dress made for a small girl and designed the flat, flexible shoe it imagines she would run around in today.
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- La moda a tus piesCourtesy of Museo del Traje
- Trans Nation: A Project by Antonio LópezCourtesy of Museo de América
- Image and Memory: Argentina 1976–2003. Photographs by Eduardo LongoniCourtesy of Museo de América
- Museo del TrajeZarateman, CC0
- Museo de AméricaSimon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0