In our inaugural episode of Shoe Are You?®, I got the chance to talk with the lovely, charming and ever-chic actress Roxane Mesquida. She has been modeling and acting since age 11, and is renowned in her native France especially for her work with the fearless director Catherine Breillat. She now lives in West Hollywood […]

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 […]