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- This is an older post, but it’s still quite nifty.   Christian louboutinHere’s all the interesting things students made out of Pumas on their last legs. [via StyleFrizz]

- What’s the best way to survive in high heels?   Is it to suffer through the pain, train yourself, or to buy shoes that match your feet?  The responses are quite predictable depending on the occupations of the respondents (surgeon, designer, and model). Christian Louboutin Pumps   [via UK Sunday Mail]
 
- The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoe at former President Bush is Christian Louboutin Boots  sentenced.  [via LA Times]

I was strolling down Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn when I saw these crazy contraptions.

That above is the A’N'D Brogue Zip Heel Tote Bag, retailing for £210.00. Then there’s the Flat Heel Turn Lock Tote Bag for £197.00, which also comes in a somewhat disconcerting saddle shoes black and white cowgirl look:

The funniest, however, is the shoe-comme-clutch. Products, after all, are all about how you conceptualize them. Visualize it as a bag rather than one shoe you had leftover from a rushed moving/packing situation and sewed a random pocket in. Or just fill your nearest favorite shoe up with your belongings and run, “clutching” it by the outsole. PS, it’s £165, if that helps you make a decision…

These bags can be purchased online at the website of Central St. Martins creative couple Azumi and David. While I’m not sure they’re my strike of the heel,  herve bandage I do think it’s think-outside-the-box exciting to be able to view a shoe this way. If shoes are mostly decorative and not functional anyways, what’s wrong with them being decorative on bags? If we have shoe necklaces, shoe belts, shoe brooches and so forth, what about shoe bags? (I’m just arguing philosophically here, since I love a good challenge of fashion philosophy).

I have one other thing to say for these bags and it’s that they wouldn’t Moncler Coats  get as dirty when you set them down on the subway floor on a crowded rush hour train where you can’t even keep your bag on your shoulder.

Have these bags got split personality disorder? What do you think? herve leger bandage  Would you express your shoe mania so literally in a bag? Or is it too much to wear your heart on your sleeve and your shoe on your bag’s sole?

Hey, it’s a recession. I get why a lot of the runway looks I saw in New York were a bit utilitarian. I understand the return-to-the-good-old-days vibe. That doesn’t mean I have to like it. This is why I was so refreshed to see Manish Arora’s collection (and why I deeply wish I had been able to go to Paris to review the collections!)

Manish Arora is an Indian designer who recently got some attention because he designed the dress that a very pregnant M.I.A. wore to the Grammys. I’ll be honest, Jimmy Choo Bags  I know this is shoeblog, and Manish’s shoes were lovely, but it was his clothes clothes that really broke up the fashion monotony. Each model wore this gold and black Raphael Young heel. Beautiful and architectural, its “horns” fit in well with the collection as you will soon see.

Now let’s see the collection. Manish worked with Disney on some of Cheap Replica Bags

  the pieces to create an African Jungle meets the Lion King.

Look at these pieces and envision James Earl Jones, deeply intoning, “Simba, you have forgotten me.”

Would it surprise you if I told you these were some of the less elaborate pieces? Check out the really intense ones!

Look closely at the models faces and note the blue tracery that some of them had. The makeup artist was going for geometric meets tribal tattooing.

In this last dress, you’ll notice that the model is holding her arms rather  Moncler Jackets awkwardly. That is because this dress was MOTORIZED!

The flower petals moved of their own accord as you can see in this video, narrated by Hillary Alexander, Fashion Director of London’s Daily Telegraph.

If you want to see the rest of this collection, go to coutorture.com. Obviously, these pieces are not really wearable. And they have a bit of why-don’t-we-just throw-every-conceivable-waked-out-tactic-at-this-dress disease. But in a sea of depressed designers going back to the alleged “happier times” of the 50s and 80s and the vast array of black coats and and trousers that I’ve seen this year, this Cirque de Soleil hits runway look is refreshing. If it does nothing else, it reminds me that fashion is an art form. The skills required to make some of these pieces is tremendous. From the quilting in the butterfly dress to the pop-up-book-come-to-life lion shoulder, this is certainly something new and different.

Can anyone tell me whose shoes Whitney is wearing in this recent vibram five finger shoes
  episode of The City? I’ve posted the shoes below. She was walking, so I couldn’t quite get a proper view of them, but I LOVED THEM and the way they looked Alexander Mcqueen Shoes with her tights, so whoever can name them for me andLouis Vuitton Shoes  post a link wins  my utter gratitude!

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Around Christmastime, Shomore posted about Claudia Lynch and her delightful Shoe Stories. They are giclee prints of shoe illustrations that she designed. Christian louboutin Thigh High Boots She also writes little pun-filled stories to accompany each one. They are very clever and the illustrations are wonderful!

I was reading through her site when I found the following and just had to share it with you in light of recent fashion week shoes-nanigans and shoe-scapades (Oliver  Christian Louboutin NIB Pumps Theyskens, I am talking to YOU):

As I am pretty sure these were up before the Nina Ricci show last week, Christian louboutin shoes  I must applaud Claudia for her foresight. I love it!