For a long time now we’ve been seeing platform shoes where the platform looks smaller than the actual shoe, so here’s the exact opposite of that idea: a shoe where the sole looks too BIG for it.

These are by Givenchy, and to me they have a slightly cartoonish look about them, almost as if the wearer of the shoe just stepped in a small, black puddle. On balance, I think I prefer the smaller size of platform (assuming that a platform that actually FITS the shoe isn’t an option, and right now it doesn’t seem to be), but I do like everything else about the shoe – well, everything except the price, that is. These are 750 euros from Louisa Via Roma.