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 […]
Fashion forward is the name of your game. Always on the cutting edge, you are a woman who likes to be ahead of the cognoscenti. You favor silhouettes with curvy cuts and fetching heel shapes to express your full femininity. Oh! And that little gold-bow adorned peep-toe? That’s you winking . . . Enter to […]
What your shoes say about you You know when you have an intuition about something, and then if you are me, you study it with great care, write two books about it, and go on TV talking about it, and work on a movie about it, just generally talk about it in general all the time (well maybe like 95% of the time), literally all over the world, and then one day, […]
God Save My Shoes Wanted to let you all know that God Save My Shoes begins it’s U.S. theatrical run at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan starting tomorrow Friday, March 30! As you know, Stilettos are the most charged style of footwear with lots of hidden and ascribed meanings, cultural significance and are a great topic for lively debate. God Save […]
Find out your shoe personality with Shoe Are You? on the Nate Berkus Show today! Oh we had a lot of fun together! Nate is quite amazing, as you can well imagine! (I have never been in a green room with white roses before which is one more reason I love him.) We played a very entertaining game with the live studio […]
hallo there! Last week, I had the good fortune to travel to Sundance to see the world premiere of DETROPIA, the painterly, gorgeous portrait of Detroit created by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. While I was there, I had to check out the shoes, of course. You wouldn’t believe the amazing variety of wintry boots and booties! Every shoe tells a story, especially at […]
