Vogue the shoe

Whatever the style, shoes have a message to be heard, and nowhere is it clearer than in this collection of some of the best fashion images of their age.

- Alexandra Shulman Part of the popular Vogue portfolio series, this beautiful book is now available in a smaller format at the friendly price of $39.

In Vogue: The Shoe , Harriet Quick has curated more than 300 fabulous images from a century of British Vogue, featuring remarkable styles that range from the humble clog to exquisite hand-embroidered haute couture stilettoes via fetishistic cuissardes and outrageous statement heels.

It contains some of the best fashion photography available, including shots from Vogues peerless archive of fashion images by the likes of Hoyningen-Huene, Irving Penn, Corinne Day, Norman Parkinson, Mario Testino and Nick Knight.

Reissued with a luxurious real cloth cover, and foreward by former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, this is essential reading for fashionistas everywhere,.