The fashion industry can be so cruel sometimes. Particularly when season change. As I’ve lamented before, just as everyone is settling comfortably into summer, fall collections start popping up for pre-order and suddenly none of my summer purchases look all that appealing. Not when faced with what I could have, if I could just wait a few months. Take the Yves Saint Laurent Palais Passementerie Booties, for example.

These shoes build on the very successful Palais shape that YSL debuted last season, and although the skewed, curvy shape of the platform and heel aren’t for everyone, to me they’re a fantastic riff on a structure that we all take for granted. When rendered in grey suede with a couple very rich details, I’m even more enthusiastic.

Can’t you just imagine these boots at the end of a pair of black Wolford tights? They’d need to be black, of course, to accent the tassels. And oh, I don’t know, maybe a boldly colored, tightly tailored dress? Fit and flare, perhaps? And a little blazer on top. Yes, exactly. That’s exactly how I’d wear these booties. Now I just need to find a few extra thousand dollars to buy that outfit. But let’s start with the boots. Buy through Neiman Marcus for $950.

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