At Lanvin, Alber Elbaz has mastered deceptive simplicity. His clothes almost always look wearable and chic, but that surface appearance belies what is often a staggering amount of intricacy and craftsmanship that hovers just below the surface. He is the most oft-heard name when discussion of Karl Lagerfeld’s eventual Chanel successor comes around, and it’s easy to see why when you look at a shoe like the Lanvin Puzzle Peep Toe Wedge.Lanvin could have made a regular peep-toe wedge with a regular wooden heel and left the design at that – the shoe still would have sold like crazy. Instead, Elbaz (or his shoe designers, whom he has picked masterfully) chose to load the design up with interesting yet subtle details to make the shoe truly special.
Giuseppe Zanotti takes his love of bling a step (or twelve) too far
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot, y’all. At first, I didn’t even realize from BlueFly’s thumnail that the giant wad of crystals on the front of this shoe was supposed to be a dollar sign, but when I scrolled by more slowly, the aim of the design became apparent. It’s like giant hip-hop bling, except for your feet. 2007 has come back again to remind us just how tacky it was the first time
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Nicholas Kirkwood makes an ordinary pump extraordinary
Nicholas Kirkwood’s brilliant shoe line ranges from the outrageous to the ever-so-slightly off-kilter, and although he gets more attention for the standouts than for quietly wearable shoes like the Nicholas Kirkwood Brocade Pumps, this design is just as worthy of note.
It takes a truly skilled designer to know how to take a classic and tweak it just enough to make it interesting without destroying the classic visual, and that’s what this shoe does so expertly. You could wear this pair to this office with no fear of breaking dress code, and you’d probably feel incredibly modern and clever while doing it.
http://www.talkshoes.com/page/4/
Whose Shoes: Blinged Out Edition
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