Outré Shoes

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From an evaluation of 21st century shoe aesthetics:

This season, indeed, shoes are so extreme that to qualify for so-called “statement” status it helps if your footwear is a crippling 15cm high, shaped like a Le Corbusier building or laden down with tassels, fringes, studs and beads. Shoes with half-crescent heels like protractors appeared at Ferragamo, and if Dali had designed engine parts then sprayed them red and purple, they might have looked something like the gleaming metallic styles that appeared at John Galliano.

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