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Tag Archives: Giuseppe ZanottiGiambattista Valli Corallo toecap pumps in gold and pink
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It’s no good, readers: I told myself I wouldn’t write about Giuseppe Zanotti for AT LEAST a couple of weeks, because I know I’ve featured the shoes a lot here, but these styles from the Spring/Summer 2012 collection are just too amazing not to share. And obviously I’m speaking figuratively here: if these shoes were mine, there’s no WAY I’d share them. Not even with you, lovely reader.
As you’d expect from Zanotti, some of these are just utterly ridiculous. Others, however, are the very definition of awesome, and yes, green suede platforms, I AM talking to you.
These are all available at Louisa Via Roma, and once you’ve had a look at the gallery, you can click here to take your pick!
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I spotted these shoes at Net-a-Porter just before Christmas, and have had them on my Shoeper List ever since. I’ve also spent a fair bit of time, well, just looking at them, basically. But enough about that.
I really like the vague 70s vibe of these, with the chunky front and the wooden heel, and the curved peep toe. I think they’ll look particularly good in summer, but the tomato-red upper will work year round, and they’re the kind of shoes that could even look good with tights, if you like that look.
These are by Giuseppe Zanotti, they’re £440, and you can click here to buy them at Net-a-Porter.
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Now, I know the execution is different here, but bold black and white stripes with a bright yellow heel is unusual enough for it to seem unlikely that Sam Edelman and Guiseppe Zanotti just happened to come up with exactly the same idea, doesn’t it?
I showed you the Zanottis a few weeks ago, and continue to covet them, although I guess the Edleman version is a whole lot more budget-friendly, at just $110 compared to the $750 you’d pay to Zanotti.
Both shoes are available at Shopbop: click here to take a look!
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Once again, I find myself rendered almost speechless by a Giuseppe Zanotti shoe. This is getting to be a bit of a habit.
Let’s talk about the most obvious thing first: these don’t have a heel. They’re constructed totally around that dish-like platform, which is built in such as way as to take all of the weight of the wearer, without the need for the slim stiletto we’re used to seeing on Zanotti designs, and which my eye keeps searching for every time I look at these.
Without a heel, it seems implausible that these would actually be wearable, but of course, heel-less shoes are nothing new: we’ve seen quite a few examples of them over the past few years, in fact (Lady Gaga is a big fan, unsurprisingly), and so we know that they CAN be walked in, although just how easily they can be walked in remains to be seen. (Wouldn’t you just love to give it a try, though? I know I would.)
I really appreciate these shoes as the work of art they are. As something to actually wear? Well, not so much: as I said above, my eye keeps desperately trying to fill in the “gap” where it thinks the heel should be, and I can’t help but be reminded of some kind of kitchen implement every time I look at them. That CAN’T be a good thing.
What do you think of these? They’re $895, and you can click here to buy them at Bergdorf Goodman.
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The bold, black and white stripes of these shoes will inevitably draw comparisons with zebra crossings. If anyone could make a zebra crossing seem like a desirable thing to wear on your feet, though, Giuseppe Zanotti would be that person, so I make no apologies for showing you yet another pair of his slingbacks, and just invite you to imagine how fabulous these would be to wear.
I love the yellow heel, which adds a needed splash of colour to the design, and I’m also a huge fan of the shape. The sticking point for some of you will probably be the fact that these have canvas uppers, and $750 is a little more than most of us are willing to pay for canvas shoes, I suspect. Still, if I had the money, these would be mine in a heartbeat. As I don’t, I guess I’ll just have to settle for the River Island striped slingbacks which I showed you earlier this week. They’re just not the same, though, are they?
Click here if you want to buy these from Net-a-Porter.
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I’ve never been able to wolf whistle, unfortunately, but if I could, I’d totally be wolf-whistling at my computer screen right now, because doesn’t America Ferrera look amazing here? I love the fitted red dress, but most of all, I love the matching red Giuseppe Zanotti peep toes:
I’ve always found red velvet a little too “festive” for its own good, but these could be the shoes to change my mind. Well, no one’s going to confuse you with Father Christmas in these bad boys, are they? Uh-uh.
These are $695 at Shopbop: click here to buy them.
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I have to hand it to Giuseppe Zanotti: I may not unreservedly love absolutely everything he does (almost, though), but I don’t think he’s ever made a shoe I’d call “boring”, and when it comes to footwear design, that’s a very good thing as far as I’m concerned.
These blue suede platform boots are the kind of thing I like in theory, but probably wouldn’t actually wear: I have a feeling the chunkiness of them could easily end up looking a little cartoonish, but I do love to look at them, and, it goes without saying, I adore the brilliant blue suede.
If you want to wear them, as opposed to just looking, these are $925, and you can click here to buy them from Zappos.
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