Last year, when I heard that The Great Gatsby was being pushed back to the beginning of this summer, I was confused – why push back a movie with a stellar cast and huge buzz? Based on the onslaught of designer deco products that have hit high-end retailers in the last month, though, it wouldn’t entire surprise me to find out that the movie had been delayed to allow fancy fashion brands an opportunity to slip 20s-themed pieces, like these Charlotte Olympia Sunset Deco T-Strap Pumps, into their collections. Read More…

Here’s legendary model and rocker ex Jerry Hall, out shopping in NYC’s East Village, wearing Charlotte Olympia Kitty Embroidered Animal Print Slippers and carrying an Hermes Kelly Bag. I was just gushing about the Charlotte Olympia Kitties earlier this week – they’ve been criminally popular for several seasons now. While this animal print calf-hair pair is slightly less my style, they look perfect on Jerry. Read More…

You can say a lot about Charlotte Olympia, but you can’t say that she doesn’t take advantage of the space that’s available to her. Shoe designers have it kind of rough – they’re constrained by both the essential structure of a functional shoe and its inherently limited size, and out of those constraints have come some fantastically inventive ways to make an impact with only a little bit of leather and a lot of ingenuity. Read More…

Creating a hit shoe requires some good design, good timing and a bit of alchemy. If you miss any of those three things, sorry – better luck next time. Rarely do all three convene, but for the Charlotte Olympia Kitty Velvet Slippers, they did. The success of the design only continues to grow, and although it might seem like a novelty shoe at first blush, with a bit of examination, it’s not hard to divine exactly why these shoes keep coming back, season after season, to complete the collections of eager customers. Read More…

If you’ve seen any of the (many) Instagram’d images from the Charlotte Olympia Fall 2013 shoe presentation, you probably had some kind of idea in mind of what was going to come next. After all, designer Charlotte Dellal isn’t one to play coy with her inspirations and ideas, and a giant Rapunzel braid snaking down a hotel’s grand staircase would let even the densest among us know that we’re in for a fairy tale in shoe form. Read More…

If you think of platforms, cats, three-dimensional flowers and any other manner of crazy embellishments when you think of Charlotte Olympia, you’re on the right track. Designer Charlotte Dellal is known for her exuberant, irreverent, hyper-literal style, and her sense of humor has served her young business well – everywhere you turn, you find a fashion person wearing her shoes, and stars are catching on in droves. Read More…

It’s been quite an impressive few years for Charlotte Olympia. Lucky Magazine thinks the brand may be well on its way to becoming the next Christian Louboutin, and I wouldn’t be entirely surprised. Louboutin and Olympia both have a quirky-luxurious sensibility to their designs and a very highly developed look that consumers can recognize from afar, and those things are of principal importance when developing a footwear following. Read More…

We spend a lot of time discussing Charlotte Olympia around these parts, and it’s for one very good reason: Charlotte Dellal makes crazy footwear that’s interesting to look at, and she always manages to come up with some sort of humorous twist or detail that I can’t resist. For $800 and up, I better be entertained. Today, though, her unexpected twist is the complete exclusion of a platform from a pair of her heels. Read More…