A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones. Contemporary footwear varies widely in style, complexity and cost. Basic sandals may consist of only a thin sole and simple strap. High fashion shoes may be made of very expensive materials in complex construction and sell for thousands of dollars a pair. Other shoes are for very specific purposes, such as boots specially designed for mountaineering or skiing.
Shoes have traditionally been made from leather, wood or canvas, but are increasingly made from rubber, plastics, and other petrochemical-derived materials.
Until recent years,[when?] shoes were not worn by most of the world's population — largely because they could not afford them. Only with the advent of mass production, making shoes available very cheaply, has shoe-wearing become predominant.
Jimmy Choo, OBE, born Choo Yeang Keat, (Chinese: 周仰杰; pinyin: Zhōu Yǎngjié) is a Malaysian fashion designer based in London, United Kingdom. He is best known for founding Jimmy Choo Ltd that became known for its handmade women's shoes.
Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia, into a family of shoemakers, who are of Chinese Hakka descent. His family name is Chow but was misspelled on his birth certificate as Choo. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most notable of students of Cordwainers Technical College in Hackney, England, from which he graduated in 1983. (The college is now part of the London College of Fashion at University of the Arts London.) Choo has divulged that he worked part time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education.
Jimmy Choo traced his beginnings back to his workshop in Hackney, North London, which he opened in 1986 by renting an old hospital building. His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the verge of international notability when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue. Patronage from Diana, Princess of Wales, from 1990 further boosted his image.
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"Making Change" is based around the true story of the homeless newspaper of the same name. It is about a group of societies' dropouts who take up the fight against a government that wants to make criminals out of private citizens and churches who feed the hungry. It sheds light on new controversial legislation that outlaws giving food away in public, suppresses religious liberty, and violates international human rights standards.
Sometimes it's easier to try to change the world....than yourself
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Something diabolical is taking place on the set of "The Task" a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.
Keywords: abandoned-prison, apparition, bare-chested-male, blood, body-double, camera, cannibalism, characters-killed-one-by-one, cigarette-smoking, clown
The Audience Isn't The Only One Watching.
Toni: I have the IQ of Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Put together.
Randall: My favorite book is OK Magazine.
Dixon: You know, people used to say I look like Will Smith. Now they say Barack Obama... okay!
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Alone, unarmed, and losing his mind, an old man named Fred is trapped in a city overrun by legions of the living dead. Driven by parasitic worms that infest their decaying bodies, hordes of rotting zombies roam the city searching for living flesh to feast upon.
Keywords: flesh-eating-zombie, surrealism, writer-director, zombie
Think, while you still can...
Land of the Dead meets South Park!
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Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
Keywords: corvette, doublecross, female-nudity, gangster, henchman, low-budget-film, murder, nudity, sex, stripper
Street wars don't just happen. Somebody sets them off.
Where are my people?
Where are my people?
How could they find the answer?
How could they find the answer?
Where are my people?
Where are my people?
How could they find the answer?
How could they find the answer?
Where are my people?
Where are my people?
I'll skip the nasty winter,