I’m sure no one needed to read the title of this post to know that these shoes are by Alexander McQueen: they’re just so typical of the brand’s creative style right now that I bet Lady Gaga has placed her order already! I would be really interested to know who else will buy these, though: I mean, quite apart from the small fact that they cost $4,790 (!), they’re not exactly the kind of shoes you’d wear to the supermarket, say, are they?
Just look at those heels!
For some reason, I’m reminded of the stormtroopers in Star Wars.
Or maybe not.
So, what do you think? Click here for some more images from Net-a-Porter.
Confession: having been completely obsessed with the original 90210 in the 90s, when the new series started a few years ago, I watched the first couple of episodes out of curiosity… and found myself hooked. There’s just something about the simple tale of excessively wealthy young Cali kids, isn’t there?
Anyway, my shoe-related point (and I do have one, I promise) is that while Shenae Grimes may not be all that familiar to some of you, she’s seen in my house every week, and this is why I was a little surprised that she would be the first celebrity I would see wearing Alexander McQueen’s curved ankle boots. You know when you see someone on TV so much that it’s a shock to see them in their “civilian” clothes, because they’ve essentially become their character for you? That.
I showed you the shoe version of these boots back in August, and declared them to be Shoe Kryptonite. I’m less keen on this version, purely because of my aversion to peep toe boots, but if they were to miraculously land on my shoe shelves, say, I’d wear them with black tights and consider myself very lucky.
You, meanwhile, can buy the leather version for $1185 at Ssense.
What do you think of Shenae’s look?
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Move over Giuseppe Zanotti, I have a new favourite red suede wedge.
Shoes just don’t get much better than these red Alexander McQueen wedges, do they? The curve of the heel is just absolutely stunning, and the bright red suede is the perfect choice of upper. I could look at them all day, couldn’t you?
Oh course, they are $930. You didn’t really expect they’d be much less, though, did you?
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Want to buy them? Then click here, you lucky, lucky, girl…
If I absolutely HAVE to wear boots this winter, I would like them to be these hot pink suede ankle boots by Alexander McQueen, please. They’d make a long, dark winter feel just a little bit brighter, no?
These have a 5.5″ heel with a 1″ platform, and are guaranteed to have people staring at your feet everywhere you go in them: well, shoes like these just can’t be ignored, can they?
You know what I’m going to say next, though, don’t you? Yup, boots like these don’t come cheap, especially not when they have ‘Alexander McQueen’ stamped on the sole, and these will set you back £630. But you can still click here if you want to either buy them, or just drool over them a little more…
When I think about the shoe embellishments I love, skulls aren’t normally first on the list. Or even second or third.
Somehow, though, when it’s an Alexander McQueen skull, it makes all the difference. The decoration isn’t the only thing I like about these shoes – there’s also the bright blue colour, the row of studs along the sole, the slightly thicker-than-usual heel – but it does help them turn from a lovely pair of shoes into ones with just a little bit of an edge.
Unfortunately, it’s a pretty expensive edge at £1,195: click here to buy them.
The shape of this boot isn’t new: I wrote about Alexander McQueen’s Pelle’ ankle boots back in May 2009, and the basic shape hasn’t changed since then. What is different, however, is the bronze stitching and hardware, and, of course, those embroidered wings on the side. I’m a bit of a sucker for wings on shoes, and I love these: I also have to admit that I’m slowly coming around to the idea of the peep-toe boot, perhaps because there are just so many of them around now that I’m tempted to think that sooner or later I’ll have to just give in and accept their existence. I still think that almost every peep toe boot I’ve ever seen would look better without the peep toe, although on these ones it does seem to work.
What do you think of them? They’re £705 at Net-a-Porter – click here to buy them.
With the fashion world still mourning the loss of Alexander McQueen earlier this year, it’s good to know that the label at least still lives on. These snakeskin peep toes come with the characteristic skull detail on the peep toe, in a nice contrast to the sophisticated shape of the shoe itself:
These are also in direct contrast to the Oscar de la Renta shoes I showed you yesterday. Both snakeskin, both peep toes, but where one brand puts a delicate cluster of crystals on the toe, the other goes for a gold and diamante skull. These ones are definitely my favourites: if they’re yours, too, they’re £755 at Net-a-Porter.
For some reason, I’m reminded of the stormtroopers in Star Wars.
Or maybe not.
