An interesting tidbit of information came to light in yesterday’s edition of the New York Post – according to the Britain’s College of Podiatry, the average woman can only stand her high-heeled shoes for a little over an hour before they become painful nuisances. For as many as 20% of women, the pain starts after only 10 minutes. The school surveyed more than 2,000 heel-wearers, and although the Post’s story doesn’t explain what constitutes a “heel,” the results seem about right, and it got us wondering about the habits of you guys, our readers. Read More…

Whether you care about movies or not, you’ve probably been made aware by the entertainment and media Powers That Be that the Cannes Film Festival is currently happening in the south of France. With Cannes comes a whole bevy of actresses, models and people who are famous for being famous, all on the red carpet in the the most Cannes-worthy of designer finery. Read More…

In general, it’s not rocket science to predict what I’ll like. Many of you probably have a certain sense of it just from casually reading the blog (I know this to be true because occasionally I get an email with a link to something that a reader thinks I’ll like, and they’re almost always right), and I very rarely surprise myself. Read More…

Although I don’t generally carry them myself, I don’t have anything specific against a monogram bag, as long as its well-executed and feels modern. Most materials, even those that tend to feel tacky or gaudy, can be used in judicious ways that retain the air of luxury that most designers are looking to cultivate. It should be about execution and context, not an inherent bias against a material. 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…

Last weekend, while most of New York City was still blanketed by significant snow, I strapped on my snow boots and made the sometimes-precarious journey to Barneys to shop for shoes. I don’t necessarily recommend going shoe shopping when you’re wearing complicated all-weather boots; taking them on and off between shoe departments at different stores gets old really quickly. The trip was mostly for the benefit of my friend, though, who was hunting for several new pairs and had just received a shoe-enabling bonus at work. Read More…

Yesterday, I did something I had never done before: I bought the exact same pair of Jeffrey Campbell Brit Wrap Strap Boots that I had already owned for two years, for a second time. Normally I like to spread my dollars around instead of having multiples of the exact same thing, particularly when said thing costs more than $50. Sometimes, though, desperate measures have to be taken. Read More…

It’s hard to think of a shoe in the last two years that’s had a bigger impact on the industry than the Isabel Marant Sneaker Wedges. Marant took a totally dead look – seriously, no one at all has cared about high-heeled sneakers in the past ten years – and suddenly made it the thing that fashion lovers and self-styled It Girls had to get their well-manicured hands on. Read More…