The luxury footwear category seems to be exploding on a monthly basis. From emerging new designers to well-shod consumers around the world vying to wear the most prescient in the category, heel detailing continues to dominate the luxury shoe landscape with unusual shapes, materials and inspiration. Here we take a look at a few of these […]
Accessories are the biggest retail drivers of global luxury brands. Items like shoes, bags and perfumes present an opportunity to cement brand positioning in the marketplace as well as capitalize on high margins without the capital expenditures, time and energy of full apparel collections. From Gucci to Prada, these accessories are an ideal way to […]
Shoe Obsession, an exhibit currently up at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s museum in New York, features more than 150 pairs of extraordinary shoe styles of the 21st century, from Manolo Blahnik stilettos to Noritaka Tatehana avant-garde platform ballet shoes. JC Report’s resident footwear expert, Meghan Cleary, had a chance to sit down with Valerie Steele, the curator […]
FOOTWEAR HITS THE STAGE IN DANCE MUSICAL SHOES The global obsession with footwear hasn’t taken so much as a pause despite the retail downturn of the last two years. In fact, it has grown even stronger across all price points. From Payless collaborations with Christian Siriano and Lela Rose to luxury designers Behnaz Kanani and […]
Check out my article in this week’s JCREPORT. I had a blast getting to know all these businesses and learning about how and why they do mobile fashion. It is the way of the future. Food trucks now fashion. Portland, LA, New York | January 4, 2011 STYLE ON THE GO WITH FASHION WHEELIES By […]
I had the chance to chat with the beautiful Olivia Wilde at the TRON/ Legacy pop-up party a few weeks back about the gorgeous Jerome Rousseau stilettos he designed inspired by the movie — and by her. It was a crazy red carpet but Olivia really wanted to talk stiletto with us so we got […]
hey guys — my review of Fall trends is up on JCREPORT. Check it out. Global | June 3, 2010 THE FALL SHOE REPORT By Meghan Cleary The shoescape for Fall 2010 is a promising one, full of exciting stories on silhouettes and materials as well as a return to some classic early-’90s toe shapes and […]
