Every season, pre-orders seem to sneak up on us earlier and earlier. Less than a week ago, Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2011 shoes made their catwalk debut in Paris, and now at least one representative of the collection’s non-runway footwear has made its way to online retail.

The Alexander McQueen Open Toe Ankle Boot is a far more complicated and interesting shoe than its name would indicate. In the grand tradition of McQueen, the design takes something expected and pulls it in a whole new direction – I don’t know if these shoes should really be called sandals or booties, but I’m not sure that either word would do them justice.

These are the type of shoes that most of my ex-boyfriends wouldn’t understand. “But they’re not even cute!” they’d protest, wondering how a designer managed (or even thought to try) to take a platform stiletto and remove the obvious hooker-shoe sex appeal from it. But cute isn’t the point. It never is with McQueen, and these shoes shirk conventional attractiveness in favor of interesting construction and unexpected resin engraving. I wish these shoes weren’t on order for April – I’d wear them right now. Buy through Saks for $1350.

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