Curators Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill have trusted that shoe-speak is a universal language, and it appears they are right.

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"I was at that Dries Van Noten collection everyone was excited because it was really beautiful, " said Valerie Steele, fashion historian and director of the Museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

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