11.   Mrs. Stern, who was born in Manhattan, was the daughter of a shoe designer.

12.   Shoe designers have put everything from thongs to high heels on wedges of wood, cork or foam.

13.   Shoe designers have borrowed from cars for years.

14.   Swerdloff, the son of a shoe designer, came up with the idea, according to Lewis.

15.   The dresses that closed the show used his expertise as a shoe designer.

16.   The footwear and handbags are conceived by Holt and made by Buenos Aires-based shoe designers Juan More y Araujo and Julia McLean Napier.

17.   The patchwork pattern weaves its way through skirts, dresses, even a pair of black and white wool boots from shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.

18.   The shoe designer Christian Louboutin still curses himself for wearing sneakers with a tuxedo to a black-tie dinner.

19.   There are brief biographies of influential shoe designers like Salvatore Ferragamo, David Evins, Maude Frizon and Manolo Blahnik.

20.   They are being produced in Italy by a factory that makes evening shoes for well-known upper-end shoe designers.