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It was the ankle roll heard 'round the world: back in 1993, supermodel Naomi Campbell walked the Vivienne Westwood runway show in Paris in a pair of Westwood's notoriously high platform heels—and fell. Hard. Like, totally fell down and just sat there on the runway for a second, stunned. Check out the footage in the video, above.
This precise pair—"Mock-crocodile skin shoes, which have nine-inch heels," reports the Daily Mail—will go on exhibition, along with a vast collection of Westwood shoes designed between 1973 and today, at the Bowes Museum in the UK.
"The exhibition shows the sheer range of Vivienne Westwood's creative energies," Joanna Hashagen, keeper of textiles at the museum, told the Daily Mail, "She is always pushing boundaries and trying something new. We all know about how fantastic her clothes are, but this is the first time anyone has really focused on her shoe collection... They are just staggering - and they are made from everything; anything you could think of. When you see them, you see they are sculptures, they are works of art in themselves."
· Iconic platform shoes Naomi fell in to go on display [Daily Mail]
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