Kei Kagami's shoes are odd contraptions of wood, leather and prostheticlike metal trussing one senses a broken culture rebuilding from scratch while Masaya Kushino's "Wind Horse" and "Storm Horse" hoof-shoes, complete with flowing tails at the heels, suggest centaur-princesses, thundering dynasties on vast Asian plains.
WSJ: High-Concept Enchantments: Review of Shoe Obsession at the Museum at FIT