Bootie

Kristin Chenoweth Designs New Shoe For ShoeDazzle

ShoeDazzle.com has announced its latest celebrity designed shoe, a little grey, suede-like bootie dreamed up by actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth. Chenoweth's design, the "Little Diva" will benefit the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, an organization devoted to improving the lives of children and families through development of better adoption-related policies and practices.

Recently ShoeDazzle partnered with Kristen Bell on its first celebrity-designed shoe, a nude heel whose proceeds benefited the Art of Elysium, a non-profit focused on easing the suffering of children with serious medical conditions. The new Kristin Chenoweth bootie arrives on ShoeDazzle on December 7.

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The Fashion Statement: Bootie Call

by Kristin Young (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Shoes, The Fashion Statement

Italian luxury shoe purveyor Sergio Rossi is commemorating the Cannes Film Festival in a few weeks with an evening sandal made of crystals adorning a soft suede net (pictured above). You can get the limited-edition shoes Sergio Rossi boutiques in Milan, Rome, Paris and London. Personally, I don't miss the diamonds (as in some red-carpet publicity shoes of yore). And, not surprisingly, Sergio Rossi's silhouette of choice? A quasi bootie.

In fact, shoe designers are increasingly pushing creativity to the max, as anyone who has seen this season's Alexander McQueen's armadillo shoes or the Gucci's caged ankle boots can attest. And most designs, whether designers call them sandals, pumps or platforms, are centered upon the bootie concept.

For those of you who've been living under a rock lately, the bootie or shootie or ankle boots or whatever you'd like to call them, are high-heeled boots cropped off at the ankle. It is THE shoe of the moment and they've been around for the past few seasons. Even if the shoe is considered a sandal, the modern look is a foot that's strapped up, buckled up, wrapped up in silk and, generally speaking, hidden from plain view. In other words, anything that gives the impression of a bootie.

Tags: Alexander McQueen, AlexanderMcqueen, Bootie, Gucci, Roger Vivier, RogerVivier, Sergio Rossi, SergioRossi, shootie

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