Call me judgmental, but I’m not much of a fan of people who smoke and I cannot abide people who wear ugly high heels.
So these hideously ugly smoking lips high heels from Prada were always going to have their work cut out for them to make me like them. They failed.
The shoes came out in 2012, with some strappy sandals as well as these slingbacks being part of the smoking lips release. At the time there was plenty of tut-tutting about the shoes being seen as glamourising smoking.
I always thought that was a bit of stretch because it’s hard to see this shoe as glamorous at all. It’s not quite as ugly as smoking, but it comes pretty close.
After all, who wants their feet to tell everyone that they’re a smoker?
Anyhow, it seems that the smoking lips shoes were a commercial as well as an asthetic flop because they were available in 2013 on Overstock.com, at a substantial discount.
Back then – only a year after launch – they were available at Overstock in white and red for $449.99. The site described them as a “moderate sellout risk” which I thought was optimistic.
However there must have been some people with more money than taste because the heels eventually sold out.
The Prada smoking lips slingback had a 3.5 inch stiletto, patent leather upper and leather lining. Let’s hope this is the last we see of them.