Database / I I I I
Design Resources: Digital Archive
Holdings Classification (Registered Name)
Pumps “Eatable shoes – Sukiyaki”
Pumps “Eatable shoes – Sukiyaki”
- Category
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- #Fashion
- Year of Production (First Edition)
1984
- Release Year
1984
- Designer
TOKIO KUMAGAI
- Manufacturer
Special production for the exhibition “Eating Shoes” (EBIS STUDIO, Tokyo, 1984). Not for sale.
- Distributor
Tokio Kumagai International
- Dimensions
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W80 × D235 × H130 mm
- Materials and Techniques
red and white resin
- Design Registration Number
Unclear
- Portrait and Publicity Rights Holder
Not Applicable
- Copyright Registration Number
Unclear
- Inquiries
KCI The Kyoto Costume Institute. Curatorial Division
- Data Source
3-5 Information at the time of donation 6 Interviews with those involved 7 Estimated based on age 8 Measured by KCI 9 Visual identification 10-11 “Zoom” February 1986 issue (H.T. Publishing), interviews with those involved, etc. 11 “Body Dreams: Fashion or Invisible Corsets” Exhibition Catalog (Kyoto Costume Culture Research Foundation, 1999), Ryo Ishizeki “Tokio Kumagai: Lightly Timeless Shoe Designer” “Fashion Talks…” Vol. 15 (Kyoto Costume Culture Research Foundation, 1999) research foundation) etc.
Pumps that express the texture of meat by applying the food sample method.
Description
This kitschy shoe is a super-realistic rendition of the texture of sukiyaki meat. The technique of Japanese food samples is applied. This piece is part of the “Eating Shoes” series, which uses various foods as motifs, such as red rice, parfait, etc. While Elsa Schiaparelli once gave people a fresh shock with her pump-shaped hat inspired by Dali, Tokio Kumagai (1947-1987) decorated his feet with food.
Kumagai went to France in 1970 after graduating from Bunka Fashion College with a degree in design. As a freelance designer, he worked on designs for Castelbajac and Fiorucci and gained recognition for his shoe designs, and in 1981 he opened Tokio Kumagai, a boutique selling women’s shoes and other clothing and accessories, on Place des Victoires in Paris. In 1983, he established Tokio Kumagai International Inc. in Tokyo. In 1987, he won the 5th Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix, but passed away at the young age of 40.
[Photo: ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, Bequest of Mr. Tokio Kumagaï, Photo by Masayuki Hayashi]