 So when is the foot-fetish fashion week? For the spring/summer 2015 season, I saw clothing collections where the eyes were drawn immediately to the shoes - either because of their beauty (the best scenario) or because the models were balanced so precariously that the walk down the catwalk was an excruciating experience - even for the audience. I also saw more models in flat shoes on the runway this season than I have ever seen before. But imaginative shoes do not have to be crazy and unwearable. The art of the shoe, so brilliantly laid out at the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition Killer Heels, which is on until February 15, has dizzying examples of fashion at our feet. CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA: IT HAPPENED OUT WEST “I’ve rarely been to the places I’m inspired by, I travel there in my mind. It’s more romantic,” said Charlotte Dellal, designer of Charlotte Olympia, holding a horse-shoe-shaped bag and a ponyskin stiletto with a horse-shoe built on the sole. From a window with a glamour-puss mannequin wearing blue jeans and riding a bucking broncho, to ‘Wanted’ posters featuring figures with their shoes treading desert sands, the designer’s offering lived up to the collection’s name: It Happened out West.  The fact that the images were taken on a film set in Almería in Spain, rather than in America's cowboy country, did not take away the power and the fun of this footwear. Stand-out pieces included clutch bags in tan leather with American Indian embroidery, suede shoes with fringed ankle decoration and heels painted with a corralling cowboy on one and a bucking horse on the other. (责任编辑：admin) |