Shoe designers' whimsical fantasies

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The fashion for unusual shoes began a couple of years ago and turned out to be a very persistent trend. Still: now the stars have a surefire way to be known as an ultra-fashionable original. And the clothes worn by actresses and singers instantly become popular. Plus, weird shoes can look incredibly sexy at times. So, the fantasies of shoe designers.

Killing Shoes

Shoes that exude aggression along with sex appeal fit perfectly into the image of a vamp woman. Madonna could not help falling in love with the model with pistol heels (made by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel cruise collection). The singer showed off the new thing at the premiere of the film "Dirt and Wisdom", directed by herself (February 2008).

Christian Louboutin took a great interest in brutal rock aesthetics, creating shoes with spikes and chains for Rodart. It turned out, however, quite glamorous. Once the paparazzi photographed Victoria Beckham in these exotic shoes as she left the restaurant after a romantic dinner with her husband.

Flowers and wings

Those originals, whose soul asks for tenderness and grace, choose shoes from Scherer Gonzalez (a duet of German designers Constance Gonzalez and Andreas Scherer). Shoe designers of this brand often decorate their models with flowers. In the spring-summer 2009 season, they offer to wear flowers even in the platform of the shoes. An excellent choice for a bride!

And Christian Dior offered for spring and summer 2009 sexy sandals with heels in the form of female figures, similar to the ancient goddesses of fertility. The shoes are available in four colors: beige, black, silver and gold. It must be nice when two special goddesses are responsible for your stability.

London-based designer Nicholas Kirkwood makes stunningly graceful shoes. No bows and rhinestones, nothing superfluous at all. The very originality and purity of the lines. “I do not tolerate pointless decoration,” says Nicholas himself. "The idea of decor for the sake of decor is outdated, so it is more interesting for me to experiment with form and texture."

Where is the heel?

In the winter of 2008, a new creation by Briton Antonio Berardi was sold out by several Hollywood divas at once. Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham and Uma Thurman could not pass by graceful shoes that do not have a heel at all. They are unlikely to be stable. At least, at the presentation of new perfumes, to which Victoria appeared in a new dress, David, just in case, neatly supported his wife from behind. The cost of this accessory is $ 3,600.

Famous shoe designer Marc Jacobs has created shoes that look like a manufacturing marriage: their heels stick out from the side, not down! Jacobs himself proclaimed that his new product should turn the traditional perception of fashion. Doctors commented that these shoes are uncomfortable and may even be hazardous to the feet. The cost of an original accessory is from 270 to 330 euros.

Male fetish

Sometimes designers make shoes that aren't meant to be worn. There is something sado-masochistic about her. Or fetish. For example, how do you like the idea of wearing a high heel without the actual shoe? This could have occurred to either a fan of heels or an adorer of female legs.

It is not known who first came up with the idea of stripping the front of the shoes. Dutch designer Annejet Kosters and shoe designers Aminaka Wilmont (designers Marcus Wilmont and Maki Aminaka Lofwander). They made "sandals" with high heels and no sole at about the same time.

In April 2009, Christian Louboutin himself came to Moscow with an exhibition of specific footwear. “I was haunted by the phrase“I can't run in these heels,”which is often said by women,” he said at a press conference.- Once I decided to create shoes that no one would ever say “I can’t run in them”. They were supposed to be desire-inducing shoes. With Fetish, I challenged myself. We have made shoes that are absolutely not designed for walking, but are exempt from any conventions."

I wear shoes …

	Necessarily on a hairpin!
	Mid heel
	Without heel

The exhibition featured shoes with a 27-centimeter stiletto heel, sandals with spikes where the heel should be, and the like crazy models.

Freaks will love the creations of the Punitiveshoes label. There are relatively stable shoes without heels with hoof-shaped soles, and huge platforms, and boots that make any girl a ballerina standing at her toes.

Fetish shoes were even made by Patricia Field, the famous stylist on Sex and the City. Rihanna once tried on her shoes with crazy heels like daggers. Posing for the photographer, she had to lean on a cane - otherwise balancing on heels of this length was difficult.