An object used to say STOP FEMALE VIOLENCE
Red shoes. A symbol immediate, powerful. A glance with effect. Color red, symbolizes violence, evil, the blood shed by many women all over the world. And at the same time it is the color ofloveand passion which turns into male.
Shoes represent every single woman's path to freedom from violence. Each with its own personal story but all to build together a common path.
Red shoes: from a symbol of joyful femininity to a symbol of protest
Always, the Red shoes they are considered the symbol of delicacy, charm, elegance of one's own womenswear. Features that each womens he wanted or would like to express freely and without constraints. However, every day those shoes are cruelly torn from the foot of those who would have liked to wear them.
In Italy, the Red shoes have become the symbol against femicide and violence against women in general.
The November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Many Italian squares welcome hundreds of red shoes.
The silent march of Red shoes it has become a symbol of protest and information around the world.
Le empty shoes scream all the agony, shame, fears and condemnation of those who have finally decided to say ENOUGH.
Le Red shoes thus on this occasion they take on a new symbolic value. They stand as the banner of a silent but determined fight against all forms of attack against women.
In the world of fashion the Red shoes have always been associated with a bold mood, a touch of color perfect to complete a total black look. The symbol of a femininity, dynamic, courageous in some ways. And above all, free to express themselves.
The Zapatos Rojos: an art project that symbolizes the denunciation of femicide
Le Zapatos Rojos they were born as a public art project by the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet. Which in 2009 exhibited his installation of 33 red shoes in Ciudad Juárez. This is the city where the femicide rate is so elevated to be called "the city that kills women".
The Mexican Elina Chauvet, with this great project has transmitted a strong feeling of reality, of pain but also of strength. He has created a method to denounce and shout to the world the horror that femicide carries out almost daily and the willpower to denounce in order to be reborn.
An expanse of strictly red shoes that identify the number of violence, deaths and mistreatment that women have suffered in their lives.
Each pair of shoes represents a story of fear but characterizes the enormous willpower to want to fight. To ensure that this horrendous phenomenon is definitively defeated. Above all that the Woman is respected for the beauty of her being.
Il 25 November is the date that identifies a fight that must be done daily or the fight against violence against women.
Many Italian squares, on the prototype of the project launched by Elina Chauvet, were filled with red shoes as a symbol of the victims. A way to remind them and remind everyone that one cannot remain helpless in the face of such a serious event. The fight against violence against women affects everyone, not just women. It is a cultural problem that affects us all.
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