What Goes Up, Must Come…Laced?
F/W 2008 Runways Shows, Runway Trends, Adrian's Rants (1)
I explore fall's suggestive It-shoe: the laceup oxford heel.While Nancy Sinatra famously sang "These boots are made for walkin", had she been recording in 2007, she may have opted for "These boots are made for stripping". As far as the last few seasons go, if our clothes haven't been explicitly about sex, our footwear certainly has. From patent leather to peep toes and toe cleavage, designers have explored the gamut of fetishistic footwear.For spring, designers proposed dizzying heights with precariously vertiginous platforms. It made both foot lovers and models shriek alike – the latter on the steep descent from their ...