Pierre Hardy Shoes

Pierre Hardy Crystal-Encrusted Suede Sandals, $2395 via Net-a-Porter

I’ve written many times before about my love of weird shoes, and that affection seemingly grows by the day. I love footwear at which women on the street will stare in puzzlement and that style photographers will break their necks to capture on film. I want my shoes to be an entity unto themselves.

So naturally, I love the graphic, in-your-face nature of the Pierre Hardy Crystal Encrusted Suede Sandals. These are exactly the shoes that would get their own close-up shot on all the big street style blogs if donned by, say, Taylor Tomasi-Hill at Fashion Week.

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Although Pierre Hardy has more of a niche clientele than the likes of Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo, but I’m personally a huge fan of the man’s designs, particularly his wedges, and I think that all of you ladies should be as well. Which is why I got quite excited yesterday when I saw that Fashionista.com had been so kind as to scan in images of Hardy’s Resort 2012 lookbook, so that I may continue to share the shoe gospel with the rest of you.

As Fashionista also pointed out (and with which I happen to heartily agree), Hardy is best known for his vertiginous modern wedges, but the rest of his shoes are just as worthy of admiration. He does a great job of embracing modernity without losing the designs’ sense of humor, which is a difficult line to toe indeed. More pages of the lookbook after the jump.

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I’m not all that old, but I can still remember when heels like the Pierre Hardy T-Strap Sandals were considered high. Not outrageously high, but still – they’re three inches, and that used to mean something. No longer! The Yves Saint Laurent Tribute Sandals came along and kicked the platform stiletto craze into high gear, and we all lost our minds (and our balance) for a few years.

Now that platforms are beginning to look a tad tired in some iterations, more and more shoes with heel heights like this one are going to show up at retailers, and this design is as good a place to start as any that I’ve seen.

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The fashion industry is a weird place. If you spend too much time in it, you end up looking at a pair of $600 shoes and going, “Oh, well, that’s not a bad price.” It sounds ridiculous, and it is, but it’s also true. Particularly when the shoes in question are the Pierre Hardy Color Block Wedge Sandals, which hit two of the year’s most important footwear trends: Color blocking and ultra-chunky wedges. Oh, and they also incorporate bright pink and multiple textures, which are trends in their own right. So maybe these shoes are actually four trends in one instead of two?

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It surprised me recently when I saw Pierre Hardy listed as a new designer at Net-a-Porter. Although I know intellectually that the designation only means that Hardy is new to the site, it still seemed odd for a brand that has been churning out great shoes for quite a while now. Hardy got Spring 2011′s color blocking trend exactly right, and now Pierre Hardy Fall 2011 is here to continue that trend.

Color blocking continues to be the word on the street, this time with the rich textures of fur and suede added to the normal shoe leather. The best of the bunch, though, is Hardy’s take on mirrored leather. Rose gold is a difficult metallic to match with colors, but the rose gold mirrored wedge with burgundy velvet trim is pitch-perfect and oh so luxurious. Easily one of the best designs I’ve seen for fall so far.

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It looks as if yet another designer got the message about colorblocking for spring loud and clear. Pierre Hardy Spring 2011 is fill with enough bright, exuberant shoes in variety of shapes and structures that it almost makes me forget about the high-heeled boat shoe at the end of our picture gallery.

Almost. Unfortunately, high-heeled boat shoes are a monstrosity the likes of which I’m incapable of forgiving, but the fun pink and orange platforms up top make me want to try.

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