By now, we’re all more than used to Gianmarco Lorenzi’s tendency to make super-high platforms, in a style that always looks more like something you’d see in an art gallery than something you’d actually see on your feet. I still thought these shoes were worth showing you, though, because they look even MORE like a piece of art than usual.
The heel is 6.2 inches, the platform is 2.3 inches, and the colours look like they were chosen by a small child, but even so, these shoes definitely have the “wow” factor, whether you mean it in a good way, a bad way, or just a totally astonished “OMG LOOK AT THOSE SHOES!” kind of way.
Which is it for you? If you love these, you can buy them at Far Fetch, where they’re £514.
I think it’s time for an intervention where Gian Marco Lorenzi is concerned. I mean, just look at these rhinestone embellished mules: such show-stoppers! So much potential to be beautiful, glamorous evening shoes! And yet, every time I look at them, I think I’m starting to get a migraine, because that ridiculous, mirrored platform makes me feel like I have double vision. Is it just me?
Yet another shoe ruined by The Curse of the Enormous Platform. So sad. So very, very sad. Although, given that these cost £1,229, that sadness is purely academic for me, anyway, because it’s not like I could’ve bought them, no matter WHAT they’d looked like. If you can, though, and you want to know what it feels like to be considerably taller than you already are, these are available at Far Fetch.
The trend for relatively plain shoe with elaborate heels hasn’t been one of my favourite shoe looks of the past few years, I must admit, but I know it has its fans, and while the heels on these Gian Marco Lorenzi pumps are certainly elaborate, they’re not as ostentatious as some shoes in this style.
Even so, there’s something about these that just doesn’t do it for me. With shoes like this, I always feel like the heel looks a little bit like it belongs on some other shoe, rather than the dull black pump it ended up attached to, and that means my money is safe from the lure of these shoes. If you think you could be tempted, they’re £419 at Far Fetch.
I think it’s fair to say that the trend for huge platforms has gotten out of hand now, don’t you?
These are by Gian Marco Lorenzi, and I think the outsized platform and two-tone heel combine to give them a slightly deformed appearance – it looks almost as if someone’s taken an ordinary (and actually quite nice) court shoe and just glued something onto the sole to give it extra height.
They’re not exactly the most practical shoes in the world, then, or even the prettiest, but I would love to try them on, if only to find out how it feels to be that much taller! If you would too, they’re £744 from Far Fetch.
By now, we’re all more than used to Gianmarco Lorenzi’s tendency to make super-high platforms, in a style that always looks more like something you’d see in an art gallery than something you’d actually see on your feet. I still thought these shoes were worth showing you, though, because they look even MORE like a piece of art than usual.
I think it’s fair to say that the trend for huge platforms has gotten out of hand now, don’t you?