Imagine a museum-quality fashion collection in a private home—discontinued Spring/Summer 2018 Calvin Klein boots stacked alongside Pre-Fall 2023 mesh sock-shoes by The Row. We found all this and more within the sprawling trove of Thom Browne Senior Footwear Designer Jeremyn Lee.
In a Dropbox folder, the designer has accumulated meticulously shot photography of each pair, organized by size, and labeled by brand and season. Never before shot in full, Lee’s archive here emerges less like a personal closet and more like a living archive of recent fashion history’s most elusive moments. These are objects once relegated to Tumblr screenshots and youthful daydreams, now catalogued with grown-up finesse. At his Fort Greene home, the collector shared with CULTURED how his collecting habit arose, which pairs have established themselves as all-time icons, and how a shoe can be as much a design object as an expertly crafted furnishing.
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Photography: @seandavidson
maybeee my most prized pair of shoes in my archive - the Prada SS2010 chandelier clogs. Also maybe my favorite shoe of all time?? Took me 10 years to find them in a size 40
Louis Vuitton FW2011 Python Fetish Pumps from my archive. Sample pair from look 49 with the FGPS stickers still inside. One of my favorite Marc LV collections
Prada FW 1996 pumps from my archive - I thiink these are samples with the higher heel height from the runway. I’ve only seen them for sale twice before. Last pic of the runway version at Pradasphere II in Shanghai Dec 2023
