Picture this: Debbie Harry in a pair of tiny glass slippers, seductively swaying on the ooh-ooh aah-aah of Blondie’s monster hit Heart of Glass… Like a modern-day Cinderella, she is dancing the night away, surrounded by her army of black knights – like, as if she gives a toss who is going to follow her home. Glass stilettos is a killer look – it is in fact the killer look when you think about it, and this knowledge more than compensates for the pain and suffering involved – even if you have to chop off a heel or cut off a toe.

I don’t know if Mia Lerssi ever saw this video, but somehow I think this must be the woman she had in mind when she thought up her Piece Cinderella is a Slut: an old shoe stand from a shop window, a found object, dipped in chrome and polished up, but not a single glass slipper left.

Quote from the text 'Heart of Glass Or: Why Mia Lerssi is the Dancing Queen of Glass Art' By Lise Haller Baggesen