Feet don’t fail: Spring’s Outrageous Shoes

Let us depart from discussions of carbon fiber and aluminum to another form of transporation — the well-heeled shoe. The discerning style site Refiney 29 captured the imagination with these looks, which walk the designing line.

Jump the line to find out what they have to say about the next platform in shoe conceptualization:

Above left: If hikers became gladiators (and then began a rap career), they’d probably wear these Gaultiers. Above right: Marc Jacob’s tasseled kitten heel can probably double as a Swifter.

Above left: Miuccia did the best she could to dowdy-fy the Lucite heel. We say, success at Prada? Above right: At least these Givenchy skyscrapers come in a practical wedge.

Above left: Jil Sander seemed to have outsourced the production of shoes to the local blacksmith: We’re loving the final wrought-iron product. Above right: Galliano really isn’t know for making comfy shoes, but you better wear these babies with an ankle brace and a prayer.

Above left: No shoe roundup is complete without the bulbous Alexander McQueen claw-like shoe. Above right: Perhaps McQueen spent a little too long watching the Alien vs. Predator flicks?

Above left: The kooky Kirkwoods at Proenza Schouler. Above right: Miu Miu‘s got us seeing spots. Someone should tell the model she’s spilled a little something sparkly on her shoe.

This site is the New York Magazine of style. They mix it up with music reviews, too. Like this one:

Mulatu Astatke – New York-Addis-London Thanks be to the music industry gods for allowing Strut Records to resurface, as no one can flex nearly as much heavy reissue muscle as they can. To whit: now they’re offering the definitive career retrospective of recordings by Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke, titled “New York-Addis-London,” which showcases Astatke’s pioneering work for the first time. Astatke gained a whole new international audience when his snakewinding “Yegelle Tezeta” appeared on the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, and it’s high time that this audience get exposed to the compelling fusion of Western jazz rhythms and Ethiopian melodies that Astatke has been expertly crafting since the mid-sixties.

(All shoe images from Style.com)

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