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2020.3.30
Title
Dirk Bikkembergs Boots and Box
Date(s)
- 1994 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
5 (pair of boots, two laces, shoe box)
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Name of creator
(1985-)
Administrative history
Fashion designer Dirk Bikkembergs (1962-) studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He began Dirk Bikkembergs-Homme Co. in 1985 after serving in the army and working as a freelance designer. He was associated with the 'Antwerp 6', a group of designers with varying styles and individual design aesthetics who emerged from Belgium in the mid-1980s.
He became known for his footwear, especially his boots, and developed a design which removed the eyelet holes for laces and drilled a hole through the heel. He launched his first women's wear line in 1993.
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Pair of black leather boots with raw edged leather laces that wrap around the boots and can thread through a hole in the heels. They come up over the ankle to the lower leg, have a blucher front, a long tongue which widens at the top, and the side pieces do not have eyelet holes. The back section around the heel is sewn with triple stitching and extends up to the top of the boot creating a back stay which has an unsewn section allowing the laces to be threaded through. The have a leather sole and stacked leather heel with hole through the centre across the width. In original box.
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Materials boots: leather
Materials box: cardboard
Materials box: cardboard
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Note
These boots were bought by the donor in 1994 from Jones on Floral Street, Covent Garden, London for £200.00.