Would You Catch A Falling Star, Before She Crashes To The Ground?
Don’t you know how people are, nobody loves you when you’re down on the floor after you fell off your shoes because they’re stupid and everybody is laughing at you? (My apologies to John Anderson)
Baby needs a new pair of shoes, but these are evidently for people with more money than brains:
The 5 1/2in creations by Briton Antonio Berardi can hardly be described as high heels, since they lack the most important part - a heel.
For the bargain price of £1,800, the wearer will get to totter around with all her weight balanced on a thickened platform sole.
Unsurprisingly, fashionistas are jostling to buy a pair.
Stars including Gwyneth Paltrow and Uma Thurman invested in a black patent version costing more than £1,100, shortly after they were unveiled in Berardi’s spring/summer collection in Paris.
And Victoria Beckham apparently has a snakeskin pair.
They are going on sale in Browns stores in London, where they have to be ordered up to five weeks in advance.
Lincolnshire-born Berardi, 39, said he was inspired by Latin American music and 1980s post-modernism, adding: “When you walk, it is almost on tiptoe. You look really dainty.”
Uhm, no you don’t. You look like an idiot.
Maybe this explains the “dainty” appeal of the shoes:
A spokesman for his Paris-based fashion house said: “The shoe has a bigger platform sole which stretches back further than normal and gives support under the arch of the foot.
“When walking though, you have to put your toe rather than your heel down first and you cannot wear them for very long.
“They are not dangerous because you would have to lean quite far back before you fell over.”
A reminder…don’t drink and couture.
Seriously…$3600 to traipse around on my tippietoes, with my foot bent into a position feet are not meant to be bent into, just for a pair of shoes? No thanks…I’ll stick to my crocs. At least my feet don’t hurt and I don’t have bunions the size of ostrich eggs.
Oh yeah…and at least I have a brain and know how to use it to be individual, instead of being a slave to every crazy fashion that clomps down the runway.
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I’m a typical guy — I think all heels are stupid.
Comment by pwinn — February 28, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
They are all kinds of stupid.
Comment by D — February 28, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
The whole fashion thing seems to me like a long time ago a bunch of people with a wicked sense of humor got together and asked themselves “How can we make rich people look stupid and at the same time take their money?”
Comment by Anonymous — February 28, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
I’m really into handbags & SHOES…but those are just ridiculous! They remind me of Celia Cruz’s stage shoes. Now those were cool!
Comment by S.Rod — February 29, 2008 @ 9:05 am
Ugh. There should be a law against MEN designing shoes for women.
Comment by crazymom — February 29, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Even the Chinese don’t bind women’s feet anymore, which is what this looks like.
Comment by Capcom — March 2, 2008 @ 7:06 pm