Shoe designer Brian Atwood at work
The magic starts with a sketch. A Brian Atwood collection starts with the shoe designer extraordinaire sitting down at his sketching desk in his Milan design studio. The desk is crowded with coloured pens …
Designer
Designer heels are upmarket stiletto shoes that a famous shoe designer has created. They are usually carefully hand-crafted (often in Italy), are made of quality materials, are expensive compared to non-designer shoes and are sold through high-end department stores or at the designer’s own shops or website.
High heel boat shoes
Boat shoes are a nautical fashion footwear trend that took off in the 1980s. Traditionally a boat shoe is a leather lace-up, moccasin type shoe with a non-slip sole to prevent you slipping overboard when …
Are Christian Louboutin heels comfortable?
Christian Louboutin’s red-soled high heels are not known for their comfort. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who said Louboutins were comfortable to wear. There’s a good reason for this. Christian Louboutin …
Jimmy Choo’s Anouk heels: 2012 – 2020
In 2012 we noticed a high heel shoe from Jimmy Choo that looked strangely familiar. The heels were a pair of black patent leather pumps, with a lethal thin 5 inch heel. They were called …
Are Jimmy Choo heels comfortable?
British brand Jimmy Choo is known for its high-end stilettos and contemporary classics, but are Jimmy Choo high heels actually comfortable to wear? Jimmy Choos do have a good reputation for comfort, or at least …
Are Manolo Blahnik heels comfortable?
When we look at this March 2019 picture of former First Lady Melania Trump boarding a plane at 7am in a pair of Manolo Blahnik stiletto heels, comfort is not the first thing that comes …
What happened to Gianmarco Lorenzi, the women’s luxury shoe brand?
Back in the mid-2010s, the Italian luxury shoe brand Gianmarco Lorenzi was a celebrity favorite known for its daring and extreme high heels. But what happened to brand which so many customers knew simply as …
Gianvito Rossi is the son of Sergio Rossi
Any profile of shoe designer Gianvito Rossi (creator of the above-pictured classic 4 inch pump) has to start by confirming what many might already well know: yes, Gianvito Rossi is the son of top-end shoe …
Stiletto heels are named after daggers because of their needle-like points
Very high heels are often called “killer heels” because of their devastating effect on wearers and admirers alike, but perhaps there is also a nod to the history of the weapon after which stilettos are …
How Christian Louboutin created his famous red soled shoes
The famous shoes with red bottoms called are called “Louboutins”. The high heeled shoes with red soles are named after French shoe designer Christian Louboutin who has produced them since 1992. Christian Louboutin’s red-soled high …