I figured we may as well start October – and the new season it heralds – with a big ol’ blast of colour. Well, why not? I have a tendency to retreat into darker colours in winter, but this year I’m determined to keep it colourful: anything to help stave off the winter gloom!
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ll be buying these Giuseppe Zanotti platforms. They’re definitely colourful, but they’re also screaming “70s!” at me, and that’s not a word I like to hear. I’ll just be appreciating these in an abstract sense, then – and I do love the mix of bright colours, and the platyful, chunky shape: just not on me – but if you’d like to see them on your feet, rather than in these photos, you can click here to buy them from Saks, where they’re £470.
I really wish there was a larger photo of these shoes on the Giuseppe Zanotti website: as beautiful as they are from a distance, I have a feeling they’d be even more special up close! Mind you, I guess the small photo could be a blessing in disguise, too: any larger, and I’d be in danger of wanting to sit and stare at them all day, and would get nothing else done!
If you’re a regular reader, then I probably don’t need to tell you that this particular shade of blue is fairly irresistible to me. I also, however, love the silk embellishment on the toe, and the fact that, despite the huge number of shoes which have this kind of detail, these still manage to look a little different. My one sticking point with these would be the ankle strap, but I suspect it’s probably removable, so I can live with that, too.
The bad news is that they’re £525: click here to buy a pair.
As a full-time Shoeperhero, I’ve always felt like I really should own a pair of red, knee-high boots. You know, to wear with my bright blue unitard and red cape? Honestly, it’s hard to hold my head up amongst the other superheros without one. The annual superhero Christmas party is a nightmare for me, seriously… If only I had £595, with which to buy these Red Boots Of Wonder by Giuseppe Zanotti! Then all my troubles would be over, and Superman would no longer be the only red-booted superhero, which, quite frankly, would do him good.
Ahem.
The colour and finish of these boots actually makes them pretty hard to pull off, I think. Had they been red suede, say, or even a soft, matte leather, it would’ve been a little easier, but that bright patent could end up looking cheap if you weren’t careful, and “cheap” is the very last thing you’d want your £595 boots to look, isn’t it?
That said, they’re the most interesting boots I’ve seen all year, and possibly for even longer than that, and they ARE just begging to worn with a cape, so I think they’ve earned their place on Shoeperwoman’s shoe blog, if not on Shoeperwoman’s feet.
These are the kind of shoes that could do some serious damage. To me, I mean. Because I’m such a klutz there’s just no telling what kind of trouble I could get into with these attached to my feet:
Let’s just hope they’re not as sharp as they look, hmm?
Danger aside, I think this is possibly the first time I’ve featured a pair of shoes with a cone embellishment. We’ve had bows, flowers, buttons… even faces and rodents and other strange items. But never cones, so kudos to Giuseppe Zanotti for being the first to break the “cones on shoes” drought.
What do you think of the shoes, though? Other than the fact that they’re wallet-breakingly expensive, obviously? (They’re £454: click here to buy them.)
There was never any possibility of me NOT loving these blue suede Giuseppe Zanotti wedges, was there?
Now, I know what you’ll all say. “But Shoeperwoman!” you’ll cry, “They have pointed toes! And we don’t like pointed toes!”
I know. And honestly, I’d prefer them to be just a little less pointed myself. Look on the bright side, though: this is the first pair of wedges I’ve shown you in months that don’t have a gigantic platform sole attached to them. That has to be worth something, right?
Is it worth $650, dollars, though? I’m pretty sure I know what you’ll have to say about that, too, but just in case I’m wrong, you can click here to buy yourself a pair from Shopbop.
Those super-high Giuseppe Zanotti wedges have definitely become a celebrity favourite, in all of their various incarnations: I keep coming across more and more photos of different people wearing them, and every time I do, I have to stop for a moment just to admire them once more. It’s been a while now, but I still love the shape of that heel!
The latest celebrity to slip on a pair of these Zanottis is Kim Kardashian, who wore the black satin ankle-strap version while out and about in Los Angeles yesterday:
Love them.
These shoes have just been reduced to £305 from the original price of £435: you can click here to buy them direct from Giuseppe Zanotti.
Giuseppe Zanotti is best known for his stiletto heels, but he does make other types of shoes, too, from time to time, including that old classic, the toe-cap ballet flat. If you were expecting Zanottis ballet flats to be as classic and – let’s just say it – boring as the rest of the genre (or most of it, anyway), you can think again. Well, it wouldn’t be like Zanotti to make an ordinary shoe, now, would it?
Nope, these have been doused in a huge dose of emerald green glitter, and then dipped in the gold version of the stuff for good measure. The effect is oddly Christmassy for me: I know I’ve talked a lot about green and gold, and my enduring love for that particular colour combination, but I think this is a little bit too much, even for me. For some reason, I’m imagining Santa’s (female) elves wearing these. Is that just me?
As I’ve also mentioned once or twice or a thousand-and-eleven times, I refuse to pay more than around £20 for ballet flats (and normally much less than that, if the truth be told), so the thought of paying £300 for these ones makes me feel almost as green as they are. If that sounds just fine to you, however, you can click here to buy them direct from the designer.
