The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.

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You might even see women hugging a pair of Louboutins tightly next to their bosoms or a few caressing the fur detailing on a pair of Manolo Blahnik boots.

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Details like loosely braided hair, fur trimming, looong knit legwarmers and thigh-high pony-hair boots were fascinating studies as the models walked past.

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