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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your head for a while, making splashes in your memory until you realize, maybe I want to own that? This is what happened to me when I came upon the Ten & Co 2013 lookbook. As you [...]
In 1914, sixteen year old Salvatore undertook the long journey to the United States to live with one of his brothers who worked at a cowboy boot factory in Boston (a cowboy boot factory in Boston?!). The eager young Ferragamo went to the factory to learn more about the art of making footwear. The modern [...]
High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled Christian Louboutin shoes were famously inspired by a French royal and notable trendsetter of the high heel, King Louis XIV of France. He passed a law ensuring only members of his court could wear the red-soled heels he sported, making it [...]
More evidence of the fashion apocalypse that was the 1970s! “I don’t know what they do to your feet but the manufacturers and the fashion editors say, ‘Not to worry, they look great‘”. (This must be how the brainwashing started). A vintage documentary from the archives of British Pathé, rounded up some Londoners for a [...]
When I was a kid, I played Dorothy in a school play of The Wizard of Oz, so I like to think I know a thing or two about clicking my heels to get home … which is exactly what this pair of brogues do! Using GPS technology, British designer Dominic Wilcox designed these prototype [...]
See what I did there? Kick you into Spring?! I crack myself up. Now take a look at what great taste I have in shoes … Stop drooling over my new boat shoes. Milly for Top-Sider Boat Shoes, $125.00 Some of you may hate these so go and find your own damn shoes … [...]
Babies aren’t really my thing just yet. Puppies are better. But baby shoes however, are another thing entirely. You may or may not be aware of my love for all things miniature, but let’s just take a moment to look at ten of the most awesome miniature shoes on the internet. [...]
The shoes above were published in the October issue of VOGUE in 1939 as a design for the House of Balenciaga. However, this pair and the rest of the shoes you are about to see in this article were actually designed by a little-known designer called Steven Arpad (1904-1999), who worked mostly anonymously throughout his [...]
I do believe it was payday on monday for all you who aren’t desperately still searching for work have found their dream jobs despite the black hole that is the job market out there. So here’s a list of 5 things to lust over this weekend and 5 things that should absolutely make you feel like a consumerist twat, [...]
The Velvet Slipper Sometimes, a shoe comes along that steals your heart. I never really cared about my shoes. Really. I was never known as the girl with the great shoes. But now, I’m the girl with the velvet slippers. Yup, that’s me, sticking my burgundy fleur-de-lis toes into the shot above. Next to me [...]
Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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1. Getting a Pug instead of a security guy via here 2. Making this happen during your
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Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting
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High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled
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Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs
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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by
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Calling all Clueless fans! I have absolutely no shame is admitting that I count this 90s time
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Ski season is upon us and naturally it’s all about the sport, and not at all about
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When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego
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Produced on the a small farm in Serbia, donkey cheese has made appearances in a $4,800 hamburger at
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Over the past few years, there have been a few big stories in the media about male models breaking
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