The Khugistic Sandal
Jenny Diski: Jews & Shoes, 9 October 2008
Jews and Shoes
edited by Edna Nahshon.
Berg, 226 pp., £17.99, August 2008,978 1 84788 050 5 Show More
edited by Edna Nahshon.
Berg, 226 pp., £17.99, August 2008,
“... Great shoemakers of our day: Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. None of them, I think, very Jewish. And if there had been any great pre or postwar Jewish shoe mavins they would certainly have been pointed out to me by my parents, who identified any Jewish achiever in any sphere as one of the family: Alma Cogan, Einstein, Marx, boxing promoter Jack Solomons (the Sultan of Sock), it didn’t matter what they were known for, everyone counted ... ”