Popular Culture
In the 19th century, Central European students drank wine or champagne from their lady's shoe or bootlet as a sign of devotion. The custom is noted among else in the 1882 opera Der Bettelstudent, where Symon drinks champagne from Laura’s shoe at their wedding. In commemoration of this romantic tradition, the French shoe manufacturer Louboutin issued in 2009 a glass shaped like a woman’s shoe, which was reviewed critically by the German daily Die Welt.
The mid-1960s British TV series The Avengers often featured fetishistic clothing, and Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman released a 45 RPM single in 1964 titled "Kinky Boots".
The Sex and the City episode, "La Douleur Exquise!" featured a shoe salesman with a shoe and foot fetish, who allowed Charlotte York to have expensive shoes for free simply for allowing him to assist her in trying on various pairs of open shoes whilst he openly complimented her on the state of her feet and offered reflexology. The relationship came to an end when Charlotte figured out she had been getting discounts because she was letting him hold her feet, and was further discomforted by the salesman obviously climaxing while assisting her with the sixth pair of the day.
The movie There's Something About Mary featured a former boyfriend of Mary with a shoe fetish. He tried to steal her shoes.
In the animated comedy show Family Guy the character Glenn Quagmire has a foot and shoe fetish, among other fetishes.
In the 1993 Spanish movie, The Bilingual Lover written and directed by Vicente Aranda and adapted from a novel by Juan Marsé, shoe fetishism pervades the whole story.
In the 1995 movie, While You Were Sleeping starring Sandra Bullock, the main character's landlord played by Michael Rispoli has a shoe fetish.
In the 2000 Japanese television series, Bus Stop the main character, Musashi, has a strong interest in high heels, and at one point repairs a broken high heel for the woman he is pursuing.
Blur guitarist Graham Coxon owns hundreds of pairs of shoes, many of them quite expensive; He has said that his love of footwear dates back to his childhood. Coincidentally, Coxon met Blur bandmate Damon Albarn at the age of 11 when Albarn approached him at school to tell him that his brogues were inferior.
In Lady Gaga's music video "Paparazzi (Explicit)" by Johnas Akerlund there is a scene in which a man is licking the singer's black high heeled pump.
In Hip hop culture, from an American perspective, styles specifically basketball shoes, tennis shoes and sneakers are obsessed over. Even songs are made focusing on specific shoe brands.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
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“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
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