{"product_id":"anna-may-wongs-lucky-shoes-huey-groves-9780615860688","title":"Anna May Wong's Lucky Shoes: 1939 Australia Through the Eyes of an Art Deco Diva","description":"Australian Architect and Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University Derham Groves just published a book of his students' design of new shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong with Culicidae Press. Groves writes in the design brief to his students: \"At its best, fashion-like architecture-can be biographical. In 1939 the beautiful and intriguing Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong performed at the Tivoli Theatres in Melbourne and Sydney.  ...] Wong was a fashionista of her day. It appears that she was particularly fond of shoes: while in Melbourne she was photographed buying shoes at Foy's department store and in Sydney she revealed to a reporter that a Chinese-style shoe she wore as a child and kept in her dressing-room was her lucky charm. Design and make a pair of shoes for Anna May Wong by 'altering' (i.e. adding to, cutting, painting, etc.) a second-hand pair of shoes purchased from an op shop.  ...] Hand in the shoes, along with a 200-word explanation of how they relate to Anna May Wong, on the 12th of October  2010]. Also upload an image of the shoes on the subject's Wiki page.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Huey Groves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615860680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615860688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Culicidae Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.27d","brand":"Huey Groves","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761032458495,"sku":"9780615860688","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd737ce2-2f00-46f1-9b69-fcdf45601de7.jpg?v=1706680181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anna-may-wongs-lucky-shoes-huey-groves-9780615860688","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}