Your Friday Louboutin Fix has come early this week, everyone. In fact, it feels a bit like Christmas has come early, what will all of the Loubie Loveliness that’s floating around this week courtesy of the publicity surrounding the 20th anniversary capsule collection.
Yes, Christian Louboutin is celebrating the birthday of his brand by creating even more amazing shoes. So, basically, he has the birthday, we get the gifts – although we DO have to pay for them, unfortunately.
You’ll find some of the shoes from the collection in the gallery below, with the rest at the Christian Louboutin Facebook page: what do you think?
For those of you joining me in the Shoeper Shoe Challenge this year, February 14th means one thing: it’s the day it’s all over. For the rest of the world (or for some of them, at least), though, it’s Valentine’s day, and I’ve decided to mark the occasion in the best way I know: with shoes, of course!
Here are some shoes to fall in love with this Valentine’s day…
It’s a little bit of a shame (for us, although obviously not for her) that Sarah Michelle Gellar is walking towards the camera, rather than away from it, in this photo, because the back of this shoe is where all the action is. Or where all of the gold is, anyway.
These are B Brian Atwood‘s ‘Blayne’ pumps, which come with a black suede upper and gold leather heels. I feel like I’ve been a bit unfair to the front by focusing so much on that heel, so here are a couple more views for you:
Black pumps are so easily dismissed as “boring”, but sometimes all it takes is to see someone actually wearing them to change your mind: I must have seen these dozens of times on Shopbop, but this is the first time I’ve really stopped to look at them, and all because I finally got to see someone wearing them!
You all know by now how much I love Christian Louboutin’s ‘Pigalle’ pumps, don’t you? Seriously, I LOVE those shoes, and if I was rich, I’d buy them in every single variation M. Louboutin sees fit to release them in.
Even if I WAS rich, though, I’m pretty sure I’d rather buy my own shoes – and make sure they actually fit me properly – than borrow a pair of designer shoes that were much too big, like Rachel McAdams, seen here at the L.A. premiere of The Vow this week. I love Rachel McAdams, and I really love this outfit: the mint Vivienne Westwood dress is to die for, as are the shoes – I even like her new bangs. Every time I look at these photos, though, my eyes just keep going back to the ill-fitting shoes, which seem to be the norm for celebrities these days, and always make the woman wearing them look like they’re playing dress-up with their mother’s clothes, I think.
What do you think? Would you wear borrowed Louboutins, even if they were a size too big?
Oh dear. This is one of those “I kind of wish I hadn’t looked” moments for me. My bank account just can’t handle the large amount of spots and stripes it’s being exposed to right now, you see, and I feel like these Naughty Monkey slingbacks have been sent to try me.
It’s no good, shoes: you can stare at me all you want, with your nautical upper and your espadrille platform, which would be just oh-so-appropriate for summer. You can even try to tempt me with your very reasonable $69.99 price tag.
I won’t buy you, though. No, I won’t. But only because you’re in the US, and I’m willing to bet that the import duties would be almost as much as the shoes themselves. If I’d found these on a UK website? Well, that might be a different story altogether…
Many years ago, back when I used to write for Shoewawa, one of the other writers wrote an “Ugly Shoe of the Week” post about a pair of shoes by Luichiny which were so ugly they literally made me gasp. Out loud. At my desk.
Thankfully for me, time has erased the details of those shoes from my mind, and I can’t actually remember what they looked like. What I do know is that I didn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to Luichiny after that, which is a bit of a shame, because it means I’ve been missing out on shoes like these cute little blue wedges, which come in a gorgeous shade of cobalt, with the super-high wedge making them very “now”. Oh, and they’re only $89.99, too.
Lesson learned: never again will I judge a brand by one pair of shoes!
I know I’ve already talked about how orange will be a big colour for Spring, but did I also mention the floral invasion you can expect to see happening any day now? No? You probably didn’t need me to, though, did you? To quote Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, “Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.”
These florals take us right back to the 70s, courtesy of a huge platform, a eyeball-searing colour mix, and a caged upper. I guess the question is, then, do you really WANT to be taken back to the 70s by these shoes? It’s definitely not my favourite decade in fashion, so I’d probably pass on these ones: sorry, River Island, I still love you, but the 70s influence is just a little too strong with this one…
A Valentino-esque bow with an almost Tiffany-blue upper? Well, I don’t mind if I do…
These shoes scream “Easter” to me, and, more specifically, “Easter eggs”. I guess that’s possibly a bit of an odd connection, but something about the colour and the bows really reminds me of chocolate eggs… and now I REALLY want some chocolate eggs, so let’s move on from that idea, shall we?
We don’t really celebrate Easter in our house (other than with the eating of vast quantities of chocolate, that is. Whoops, so much for not talking about it!) so there’s not much call to get dressed up for it. That’s never stopped me before, however, and I can see these shoes as part of the perfect Easter outfit: they’d look fabulous with most pastels, and have a very “ladylike” feel about them, which would make me want to add a cute little hat and maybe some gloves, too. Over the top? Maybe. But awesome, all the same…
These are also available in black, but really, where’s the fun in that?
