Oh, how our heart sings for Rockstuds. We’ve been obsessing about Valentino’s collection of rockstud bags, shoes, and accessories for what seems like forever (but has actually only been a year or two). Giuliana Rancic looks almost unforgivably chic wearing Valentino Rockstud Noir Pumps, a black princess coat, black leggings, black sunnies, and a simple black Hermes Birkin. If you love these patent leather T-strap heels as much as we do, you can grab them at Neiman Marcus for $995. Read More…
When you think of crystals on a shoe, I’m betting your minds go directly to one of Christian Louboutin’s world-famous crystal-encrusted footwear confections. Those designs are consistently the most expensive and sought-after in Louboutin’s ever-expanding shoe empire, and countless other designers large and small have taken up the pursuit of bling to try and snap up a bit of that lucrative business. Read More…
We first spied the Valentino Naked Rockstud Wedge Sandals way back during the Valentino Spring 2013 show, and I’ve been hooked on the collection ever since. As a group, the shoes are light, feminine and very smart in their use of modern materials like lucite and PVC to create a very traditionally girlish look. You’ll never see lucite look more ladylike. Read More…
Valentino’s Rockstud shoes and handbags have proved incredibly popular over the past few years, largely because they fuse a little bit of a tough edge with the brand’s trademark ultra-feminine approach. In an attempt to change things up for cold weather, though, Valentino came up with Rockstud Noir, a black-on-black take on the Rockstud theme that proved that feminine pieces don’t necessarily have to be light and girlish. Read More…
For some reason, every Tuesday when I am scheduled to go into the TalkShoes offices, it rains. Every single Tuesday for the last five weeks straight. Ask anyone on the team – I’m not kidding. Why it rains every Tuesday, I couldn’t tell ya. But I can tell you is this. If Mother Nature keeps up with this pattern of rain on Tuesdays, then I may just have to give in and buy a pair of RED Valentino Bow Rain Boots. Read More…
Lucite is such a tempting material for shoe designers. It’s incredibly difficult to create visual lightness while still manufacturing a shoe that will do its functional duties for women of highly varying weights. It’s especially difficult to do translate lightness to the heel of the shoe; either you make it especially spindly and risk breaking all your customers’ ankles, or you go with lucite and try to strip it of the extremely strong association that consumers have between clear heels and strippers. Read More…
Must of us probably associate covering a shoe in crystals, or strassing, with Christian Louboutin. He’s the one that made the look famous, and Louboutin does it in more colors and styles than any other high-end designer on the market. That doesn’t mean that other brands can’t get their piece of the in-demand look, though. Valentino, for its part, does it quite well. Read More…
White shoes are tough. Not only do they get dirty quickly, but they rarely look expensive (even when they most definitely are) and usually conjure images of tragically colored pantyhose or naughty nurse costumes. Which of those is worse depends on your perspective, but neither is an objectively positive fashion reference, and as a result, most brands and customers avoid white footwear. Read More…
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