Here’s your fave mama-to-be, Kim Kardashian, wearing a gorgeous pair of white Giuseppe Zanotti Metal-Embellished Sandals. She was photographed in this outfit while heading into Kanye West’s NYC apartment, right before they embarked on a little Soho shopping trip. (I’m guessing many a sales commission was earned in downtown Manhattan that day.) If you adore these Giuseppe Zanottis, a similarly styled Giuseppe wedge can be had for $1,695 at Net-a-Porter. Read More…

There was a time when the Giuseppe Zanotti Bow-Detailed Suede Sandals wouldn’t look like quite the oddity they do today. That time was about three years ago, when the footwear industry was in the midst of an arms race of sorts to see who could build the highest platform that women would actually spends $800 on. Christian Louboutin mostly won that fight, as he tends to do when platforms are involved, but I’m not sure he won the war. Read More…

Not acceptable.

See, this is the type of thing that I get worried about when trends like hidden-wedge sneakers get really popular. Hidden heels are exactly the kind of element that some well-intentioned designer will likely re-appropriate to disastrous effect, and that’s exactly what we’ve got with the Giuseppe Zanotti Hidden Heel Cowboy Boots: a disaster.

It’s not hard to see what’s happened here. Read More…

Here’s Khloe Kardashian, once again flaunting her super enviable designer wares courtside during a Clippers game in L.A. Just a few weeks ago, we spotted her toting a Celine Trapeze Bag while catching a game with a gal pal, and here she’s donning a gorgeous pair of Giuseppe Zanotti Gold Ankle Strap Sandals. (In case you exist wholly outside of the Kardashians’ universe, Khloe’s hubs Lamar Odom plays for the Clippers.)

While these heels look fab on someone with Khloe’s height, I would not electively wear them on a slippery basketball court in a million years. Read More…

In a situation where one shoe didn’t clearly “inspire” a lower-priced alternative, the Giuseppe Zanotti T-Strap Flat Sandals and the Tory Burch Pacey Flat Sandals are about as close as you’re going to get. Both are from Spring 2013, so they were designed around the same time, and I doubt that Burch is looking to Zanotti for inspiration – the two brands have very separate aesthetics and target customers. Read More…

I didn’t realize until after I had had a full fantasy about the Giuseppe Zanotti Suede Leaf Sandals that they are decorated with leaves and not flames, so forgive me for my answer to my own Fill in the Blank, because it feels slightly silly now. (I don’t always immediately read the name of a shoe design before I fall into Fantasyland.) When I first laid eyes on these sandals, I immediately assumed that what we were looking at was gilded flames, and naturally, I felt that they must be worn by the Girl on Fire herself, Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games

Based on what I know of Katniss (which, admittedly, is not everything – I’ve only read the first book in the series), she would hate these shoes and likely not be skilled at walking in heels, particularly the ultra-high, thin, almost heeless wedges that Zanotti has created here. Read More…

Despite all the discourse, sneaker wedges are not going away – in fact, thay’re now more proliferous than ever. A quick search on Google now yields four whopping pages of shopping results that include everyone from Marc Jacobs to Puma to Steve Madden. The extra-luxe kicks in this picture belong to Evelyn Lozada, ex-wife of Chad Ochocinco, ex-GF of Antoine Walker, and star of the reality series Basketball Wives. Read More…

As much as I love weird shoes, complicated shoes, funny shoes and sometimes even confusing shoes, there’s a part of my brain that lights up when I see something minimal done exceptionally well. From a design standpoint, it’s more difficult than you think, especially for a man like Giuseppe Zanotti. He’s not known for his restraint, usually to tantalizing effect. These Giuseppe Zanotti Metal Heel Suede Sandals are tantalizing in a completely different way. Read More…