Wayne sent me this from New York Mag and I loved the idea of flirting with your Stilettos.

“The Stiletto
Christian Louboutin and Diane Von Furstenburg on the Stiletto

It sticks in subway grates, snaps when you are walking home, late at night. And yet the stiletto is the shoe of New York: towering, a bit frivolous, elegant, gutsy. Diane Von Furstenberg and her best friend, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, describe its appeal.

CL: Stilettos are not done for running. I don’t see why everybody always has to run. Who’s running? It’s a misunderstanding of life. There are very few reasons to run all day. It’s mental! It’s really mental! If you wear the stilettos, a man can . . . how you say, Diane?

DVF: Approach you. He has time. It’s flirtatious. If you have good shoes, you master the stilettos. This is the secret of being a woman.

CL: It’s a body language.

DVF: It’s a total advantage. It’s a gadget. It’s a weapon in more ways than one.

CL: Sometimes people come to me and say I am blind to women’s needs, high heels are so this and so that. Well, they wouldn’t buy them if they didn’t want to.

DVF: Shoes are something that give you joy!

A weapon of destruction and a weapon of seduction, too.

CL: It’s really for women to help with the men. They notice you, they turn. They see hair, they see the sole of your shoe. It’s a Suivez-moi, jeune homme. Do you know this? “Young man, follow me,” like the ladies who would drop the handkerchief.

DVF: Yes. The suivez-moi of the twentieth century.”