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September 12, 2014

Brooklyn show looks at mystique of ‘killer heels'

By ULA ILNYTZKY
Associated Press

NEW YORK — It may be Fashion Week in Manhattan, but “Killer Heels” are coming to Brooklyn.

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum looks at the elevated shoe as a design object, from platform shoes dating to about 1600 to a contemporary — and lethal — 8-inch dagger stiletto.


 
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