I remember the first time that I ever saw a red Christian Louboutin sole. I was about 12 or 13, leafing through one of my mom’s copies of Vogue, and during that time period Condé Nast used an imagine of sky-high, lime green silk Louboutins, shot from the bag to reveal the sole, to advertise the magazine’s website. I did know that’s what they were at the time, but I remember doing a double take at the red lacquer and being blown away.

Over a decade later, when I see images like photoblogger Tommy Ton’s impromptu photograph of Elle senior style director Kate Lanphear swathed in black except for the red of her Louboutins, hurrying toward some surely fabulous event at New York Fashion Week, I’m still blown away. My eye goes directly to her shoes every time I see this photo, and then to the gentleman at the left whose attention she has clearly earned. With shoes like those, whose head wouldn’t turn?

Curious about Kate’s shoes? They’re the Christian Louboutin Misfit 150s, set to be released next month.

Check out more of Tommy Ton’s work at his blog, Jak and Jil.

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