Salvatore Ferragamo Shoes

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I was going to end the day with a review of Miu Miu, but I feel like that collection needs to settle for 24 before I try to say anything halfway intelligent about it. Some design is like that – you have to let yourself become accustomed to it for a little while so that your brain can adjust. Because I have great respect for Miuccia Prada, I’m going to give those shoes the benefit of the doubt (and the benefit of 24 hours of rumination).

So instead, lets talk about one of the collections from Milan that we didn’t have a chance to discuss. (We’ll be going back to pick up more of these lines from the previous Fashion Weeks now that the shows have ended for the season.) Ferragamo Spring 2012 was a show full of strong color and pattern, and these are shoes befitting that aesthetic idea. The straps and heel are bold, but the construction is purposefully slender not only because of the season, but because an overly strong shoe at the end of one of the Ferragamo runway outfits would surely be too much for any woman to pull off. Instead of taking things too far over the top, Ferragamo chose a wisely meager proportion in very bold colors.

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Do you work in an office? Do you want to have the best shoes in the entire building despite the dress code forbidding open toes and platforms? If you answered “yes” to both of those questions, the fine folks at Ferragamo would like to speak with you and perhaps interest you in a few of their pieces from Salvatore Ferragamo Fall 2011. I suggest you listen to what they have to say.

This collection constitutes a return to form for Ferragamo that’s both figurative and literal; the company seized the opportunity left by the slightly waning popularity of round-toed stiletto platforms to produce a line of tight, traditional pointed-toe pumps in a palette of textured black and white. These are the kind of shoes that you can wear not only to the office, but also to an upscale bar for drinks afterward and be proud of your footwear choice the entire time. If that’s not a perfect justification for paying top-dollar for footwear, I don’t know what is.

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