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Pilates in Heels: The Experiment

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New York City fashion. In most ways, I feel like I've nailed it. How to pair black and wear color, how to sport statement pieces, vintage finds, silk, leather, carryall bags, tiny clutches, you name it. And yet when it comes to heels, I'm as clueless as a Wisconsin dairy farmer.

Don't get me wrong. I love a gorgeous pair of heels and I would love to pull them off effortlessly. I'd love to meet a 7-foot-tall guy and wear 6-inch stilettos 12 hours a day. But honestly, I find it hard to wear anything over 4 inches for an hour. It's remarkable how many girls in New York can pull this off. And like me, they're not all fashion editors with a car service. Like me, walking is their primary mode of transportation, and they clock miles a day without a change of shoes.

There are stories that heel masters like Victoria Beckham wear stilettos on the treadmill. (Don't worry it's a rumor; she only just started exercising). And sure, they admit, no pain no gain. But there's a difference between suffering a little pain for fashion and walking around like a defeated hobbit after the workday is done.

Is there something I'm missing? Is there a way to train your feet to withstand the pain? When it comes to learning, I'm an immersion type of gal. So I, with my friend Bryce Gruber over at TheLuxurySpot, decided to try a little experiment for the sake of fashion. In a new series, we're going to try out a variety of vertigo-inducing heels in the most inappropriate situations possible. An activity that's totally insane to do in anything but flats? We're there. Could we find out the hard way some tips and tricks for wearing heels? If I were to run a mile in stilettos, would it make wearing them to the office a breeze?

For the first run, we decided to start out simple, something active, but not too strenuous. What's the one place we regularly frequent that would draw stupefying glances our way as we treaded on $4,000 machines in sharp heels? Pilates. And to go all out for our stiletto workout look, we donned some fabulous leotards, courtesy of American Apparel.

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The $155,000 Diamond Shoes

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry, Shoes

These aren't the most expensive shoes we've seen (Stuart Weitzman's $2 million tanzanite sandals have that honor) but the $155,000 Eternal Borgezie Diamond Stilettos are still pretty impressive. The shoes are handcrafted by a goldsmith and a jeweler sets the shoe with over 2,200 diamonds for a total of 30 carats. The shoes come with a 1,000 year guarantee. The red-soled shoes were designed by British jewelry designer Christopher Michael Shellis who spent three years working on the design.

[via NY Daily News]

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The Fashion Statement: Extreme Feet

by Kristin Young (RSS feed) —

Filed under: The Fashion Statement

Extreme, statement-making shoes make the woman.

If you routinely go the safe route on your footwear choices (and, by safe, I mean simple plain black pumps or modest, solid-colored flats), you're just not living. Or at least not setting yourself apart.

The fashion world is obsessed with over-the-top shoes. The crazier, the scarier, the stranger, the better. And, because fashion is a business, it means women's appetite for extreme footwear is increasing by leaps and bounds.

Sky scraping platforms. Metallic belt-buckle over-the-knee boots. Shoes that resemble the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Shoes that look like bloated armadillos. Cowboy boots that threaten to topple you over backwards. Torturous spikes. Spinal stilettos. Garter belt lace-ups. Stilettos festooned with feathers.

For fall, 2010, ski bindings and interior design materials like plywood and Formica marry to create Baleniaga's high-heeled, color-blocked loafers. They are absolutely nuts! And you'll no doubt see them on some Hollywood It creature come red carpet events later this year.

Riccardo Tisci's Givenchy fall lineup includes an impossibly complicated pair of red lace-up booties that have tiny bumps not unlike some deep sea monster.

Gallery: The Fashion Statement: Extreme Feet

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Saw Plateau Leather Pumps Elevate Neutral to Naughty

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

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Nude-colored pumps are usually among the most conservative of dressy shoe options, but this pair of Saw Plateau leather heels is anything but, being the opposite of understated and demure. Designed by Camilla Skovgaard, they feature an eye-catching 5" stiletto heel opposite a set of teeth in the form of a signature serrated rubber platform.

I like them except for the fact that the rubber teeth squish to almost flat when worn, due to the extra weight of the person's body. I'm sure they're dreamy to walk in though. $500

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Dream Heels Lets You Design Your Own Shoes

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Custom design T-shirts are commonplace now but how about custom stilettos? Dream Heels is a Canadian company that entices visitors to create and submit their own styles. The designs are shown on the Dream Heels website and can be voted on. Each month a winning design is chosen. The creator receives $250 and a $250 Dream Heels gift certificate as well as $0.50 for every pair that gets sold in the Dream Heels shop featuring that design up to $1,500. So far there aren't any shoes up for purchase yet and all shoes are in the same basic style but still, this is an idea that may have legs.

[via Springwise]

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Lux Staples: The Black Stiletto

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

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Some things in life are worth spending money on, and if you aren't lucky enough to be a celebrity with money coming out of your ears you're going to need to pick and choose what your priorities are when you go shopping. One staple that every girl needs in her wardrobe is a gorgeous pair of black stiletto heels. Versatile and never out of style, the right pair of sexy black shoes is an investment that can give an instant shot of classic sex appeal to almost any outfit. Do you have a favorite pair at home? If not browse our gallery for inspiration.

Gallery: Luxe Staples: The Black Stiletto

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Alexander McQueen's Spring 2009 Stilettos

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

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Runway fashion shows are fun because the styles are so extreme, and then it's always interesting to see how the designs get toned down later for sale to the mainstream public. The shoes in Alexander McQueen's Spring 2009 collection are no exception, providing lots of artistic flair and totally unwearable (in the real world anyway) style. My favorites are these crystal boots -- look at that gorgeous heel -- and my least favorites are these incredibly ugly and unflattering heels that are made to look like your toes are pressing through the leather. Yeah, gotta love the "my shoes are totally too small" look.

Gallery: Alexander McQueen Spring 2009 Stilettos

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Rose 'n Roll by Roger Vivier

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

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Sometimes shoes are an accent to an outfit and sometimes they make the outfit. The Rose 'n Roll shoe by Roger Vivier is definitely one of the latter, featuring wool tartan in a bright plaid print with a large attention-grabbing rosette perched on the toe and (my favorite part) a little black laquered thorn coming off the sky-high stiletto heel.

I like this shoe, but I think I'd love it if it weren't for that wobbly bobble of a rose. Find a pair in Roger Vivier stores this fall and winter as part of the 2008/2009 collection. £830

Via Book of Joe

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