Friday, September 6, 2013

Why Are Numerous Females Obsessed With Footwear?

By Joana Boyle


We're planning on wearing flats on Fashion's Night Out. How else could we get from Saks Fifth Avenue (JT alert!) to Vena Cava's block party in Williamsburg and back to the Meatpacking District without developing some Big Apple-sized blisters? Speaking of hoofing it, Christian Louboutin will be offering Champagne foot baths and pedicures at his Madison Avenue shop. No, the shoe maestro himself won't be in town; he's busy putting the finishing touches on his new Rodeo Drive boutique.

I have never been a fan of Barbie, but I know that some collectors are absolutely besotted by this ever-changing icon of American beauty. To call their collection "toys" would be the biggest insult. These collectors spend hundreds of dollars purchasing designer clothes for their Barbie dolls and, there are a number of top dress designers that have designed especially for this plastic queen. Christian Louboutin Barbie shoes are without doubt individual works of art, and a must-have for any collector who wants her Barbie doll to look like a million dollars.

Well, I think there are a couple of layers. First off, shoes are an intimate extension of the physical body. And they seem to say a lot about our personality, our sexual attitudes, and our social status. And high heels in particular seem to be the focus of a lot of our thoughts about gender, sexuality, eroticism, and femininity. I think there's definitely an element of sexual fetishism involved in men's fascination with women's high-heel shoes. But for women, I think it's not fetishism so much as it is an obsession with fashion and with shoes as the ultimate sartorial symbol of erotic femininity.

We see some bright pinks from Christian Louboutin and Miu Miu alongside funky neutrals from Marni hitting the virtual shelves this week.Larsa must have been relieved when it was time for the cooking lesson, but everyone else was a little irritated.The only problem, naturally, is that the Louboutin clutch costs a thousand dollars.

It goes way back to Cinderella. Shoes have played an important role in cultural thought for a long time. In Qui tes-vous, Polly Maggoo?, a film from the sixties about French fashion, there's a wonderful scene when a TV reporter is interviewing some pompous French sociology professor who says that the Cinderella story is all about the importance of tiny feet and beautiful shoes. Then he says, "So there you are: fetishism, mutilation, pain. Fashion in a nutshell." [Laughs] But I do think that our show is unique, because we're not just looking at the social and psychosexual reasons why we all love shoes. We're focusing on the twenty-first century and calling attention to the fact that in the last twelve years or so, after the end of Sex and the City, the obsession with high-end designer shoes has spread from something that only a few people were really obsessed with to being something that everybody's obsessed with.

Buy the Christian Louboutin through Net-a-Porter for $995, or the MaxMara through Matches UK for $486.Christian Louboutin Sweet Charity Glittered Shoulder Bags, $795 and $995 via Neiman Marcus.

For those who would rather go the faux-snakeskin route (or who would rather have a similar clutch in a neutral instead of a bright), check out the MaxMara Embossed Evening Clutch for less than half the price of the Louboutin bag.We all thought that Slade was the odious one in that relationship, but as it turns out, Gretchen is giving him a run for his money.From Yves Saint Laurent to Fendi to Christian Louboutin to Valentino, the shoulder bag is my favorite predominant spring shape.

If you want to wear a bright pink pair of Christian Louboutin Barbie shoes to match your doll, bingo, this crazy designer has even made a matching pair for your feet!

It's a pendulum effect. It's been going on for more than five years and people are sick of it. Now, single-sole shoes are being referred to openly as "sexy shoes." They might not be quite as vertiginously high, but [they create] a sexier, smaller, more delicate-looking foot.




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