Prince Designed His Own High Heels, and Now a Museum Is Treating Them Like High Art Standing just five foot three, Prince often wore high-heeled shoes he designed himself. Shoes designed for and ...

Just in time for New York Fashion Week, a new exhibition of “killer” high-heeled shoes is coming to Brooklyn.“Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe” was created by the Brooklyn ...

Iris van Herpen’s heels from United Nude, 2013 ( Jay Zukerkorn ) French boots from the early 1900s are part of a Brooklyn Museum exhibition examining the design of high heels. (Art Resource, NY ...

There are plenty of reasons why women wear high heels today — to dress up an outfit or lengthen one's silhouette, for example — but centuries ago, the shoes served a much different purpose.