Andy Warhol - Shoe Designer?
	Could you imagine owning a pair of Andy Warhol high heels? Here I have compiled a few excerpts and pictures of Warhol's wonderful shoes. The pictures on black background are screenprint with diamond dust on D'Arches Watercolor. The pictures on white background are offset lithograph and watercolour on paper.

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...Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist and designer of shoes. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker and did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller...
Excerpt from: http://www.efineartonline.com/andy-warhol-1.html

...In 1949 Warhol arrived in New York City, where he made a meager living in advertising display work. He took some of his drawings to Glamour magazine and received a commission to make drawings of shoes. These were published and admired; he then worked for a shoe chain. In 1957 a shoe advertisement brought him the Art Directors' Club Medal. His work appeared in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines, and in 1959 he exhibited his gold shoe drawings in a New York City gallery...
Excerpt from: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=20503

...On his second day in New York, Andy found work at Glamour magazine drawing shoes. (In his first attempt at the assignment, the shoes had a "lived-in, rumpled that had a slightly suggestive sexual edge to it" which, though looking “terrific", he had to redo for the next day (52).) He found more work drawing advertisements for magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazzar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards...
Excerpt from: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/e/jes413/warhol/