Female Shoes Are Becoming Increasingly Weird
- Thursday, March 26, 2009, 23:03
- Fashion & Wear
- 26 comments
As shoe models are becoming increasingly otherworldly in colors and design one may wonder if our leading fashion designers are in competition for the weirdest pair of shoes. Over recent years, we’ve seen drastic changes to the design of heels and wedge shoes.
First, we were offered to try incredibly high stilettos and less-than-comfortable wedges. But designers didn’t stop here and now they are offering us the kind of shoes that you need some time to recognize where their heel is and what part of them will make it possible not to be thrown off balance.
Modern shoes are more of a fictitious nature and supernatural designs. Thigh high boots came to replace jackboots, heels are shaped into very weird forms (and sometimes there is no heel or wedge at all as with heel-less boots) and the diversity of colors can blear the eyes.
Designers are not afraid of going over the top, marrying the weirdest forms with the boldest colors.
Get a load of a pair of shoes presented at Moschino Cheap and Chic Fall-2009 show. These are two-colored or brightly one-colored shoes set on what seems to be unfinished wedge, both at the heel and the toe.
At their new shows Dolce&Gabbana and Roberto Cavalli came up with a bunch of fresh definitions of what a heel should look like. The former actually extended a heel into a sole and the latter presented thigh high wedge boots. Nobody got where those boots ended on female legs, though.
The latest Olivier Theyskens’ shoe collection for Nina Ricci was filled with shoes strongly recalling a hoof –shoes with a high wedge at the front and without any support at the back. Such a design can’t help but draw attention. Yet Theyskens went further and added dazzling colors to his “hoofs”, from shimmering purple to navy.
And even if the heel is right where it should be, its design is still staggeringly mind-blowing. It seems that traditional “bare” heel is way in the past.
Do you remember the Chanel gun heel shoes that Madonna wore recently? It’s not been long since we saw them but the shoes don’t look strange to us anymore. This season, the House of Dior unveiled stucco heels and a popular duo Proenza Schouler came up with spring-shaped heel.
And these fashion designers are not alone in their efforts to offer incomprehensible designs. Sergio Rossi presented “spiral-stiletto”, Marchese fashion house offered crystal-encrusted heel and Giuseppe Zanotti created wedge shoes which simply can’t be put into words.
Source of the image: nytimes.com, feefifoto.com, shoecloset.wordpress.com, theshoegoddess.com, wday.ru.
Interesting.
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But most of them are so dangerous! No surprise that so many models fall on catwalks.
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Man! I would never wear any of these! And the worst part is that these are all so expensive!
why is it that these designers spend SOOOOO much money making these reDICulous clothes and shoes and accessories, yet no one EVERY buys them or wears them? such a waste. runway is FRAKKIN ugly!
Ever notice that the more “high fashion” something is, the more ultimately it’s just plain ugly? I haven’t seen anything new from a catwalk that didn’t make me want to barf in years. Unless you can find it at Hollister or Old Navy (and none of this nasty crap is there), I doubt you’ll encounter many young women particularly keen on anything, no matter how trendy it supposedly is.
Looks like a broken ankle, I would not wear any of those ugly shoes, just because something is different, doesnt mean it is good, When you look to men for fashion, gay men you are either going to look like a pre-pubescent boy or a freak, thanks but no thanks… Not interested in looking like a freak.
I wear what I like, not what is in style this week,
You have to remember, most of the advanced Chic is done by queers.
It’s just another “proof” that most people of current culture are Sheeple.
It’s art, not intended for everyday wear, you halfwits. Furthermore, the whole Internet has seen these a thousand times.
No, it is the nitwits that confuse “art” and life.
No.
I dunno, I really liked the red ones third from the bottom….the rest however…not so much
Oh “Dr.” Claude you have all the answers dont you??? Let me ask you this: How does one “confuse” art and life???????
ya Autumn I would wear those ones too
No, Nicole, I do not have all the answers.
But this one I can differentiate:
Art is a human construct; something that either pleases one or makes that person react, albeit it visual art, auditory or tactile. Art can be constructed purely in the mind; creative thoughts that entertain, please or frighten some.
Life, is a path one takes through life that has random futures. It has sorrow, it has joy, and it has an ending,
So no, Nicole, I don’t have all the answers, but I think I have this one.
*sigh* I’m sick of these posts about these shoes. They’ve been done a thousand times, and each fails to mention the fact that these shoes aren’t sold in stores to the public – they are (at least most of them) made as art – one pair as art. These designers are intentionally making these shoes ‘off the wall’, they’re not trying to make something wearable. The title of this, “female shoes are becoming increasingly weird” – the average shoe is not becoming increasingly weird, nope, they’ve stayed pretty much the same. There is a line drawn – a HUGE line – always has been, always will be – between high fashion runway shock shoes and shoes intended for real wear.
Creativity in fashion is inspiring whether you are wearing it at least once or just look at it and WOW.
cool
UUUUUUUGLY that’s what it is
amazing heels
amazing i want them all
oh well, fashion knows no comfort C:
There are definitely some crazy designs – but you have to remember that most of these are ‘designer’s designs’ … not made for customers. There will be a few boutique pairs available to buy, but most will incorporate the user-friendly elements from the good designs into much more natural, easy to walk in shoes.
some kinds i understand .. but number two is absolutely ugly
i love all of them….so sofisticated………