Other Worldly Shoes

As mentioned by Luxirare and StyleBubble... These Anastasia Radevich creations blew my mind. The following shoes are from her latest collection called Kenetik. They are true sculptural and technical masterpieces.

As a shoe designer, I really appreciate the love and creation that goes into shoe design. The blood and sweat behind the end result. When I see designs of this caliber I love to guess at what inspired the designer...


The heel is like black ink gliding through water. It's so beautiful and unlike anything I've seen.

Maybe she was inspired by liquidity. Dancing moving pigment. 

Bjork's Vespertine album comes to mind as well. Something about the artwork reminds me of the fluidity of the heel. 

These shoes have LED lighting in them... behind a screen of mesh, they remind me of electric Jellyfish. Or a far away galaxy.

There is something very alien like about jellyfish. Something about these shoes as well.

Whatever her inspiration was, she has inspired me. These are amazing and I'd love to get my hands on a pair.






By the way, Some other LED shoes...

 Rodarte

 Jimmy Choo

Chanel

Betsey Johnson sent light up stripper shoes like these down the runway

Ok, not shoes, but Katy Perry's light up dress at the Met Gala

If You Don't Like Fur... You Won't like Fall

Accessory reports are showing that fur is huge for Fall 2010. Yikes.

Fur is bad enough on coats but at least you can say that they keep you warm. Fur on your feet??

According to top designers, yes.

If you ask me? No.

Gross gross gross. I'm all for a little shearling trim on a cool boot like this one from Burberry

But the following shoes are just silly. And cruel.

Lanvin's Fox fur boot.

Why would you want to look like you had fat hairy legs??

Celine (the design house, not me) has this option for those of you who just want fur between your toes. Sweaty.

Lovely. And if that isn't enough fur... there's more here

(rabbit fur)

Chanel is doing fur in a cruelty free way... faux fur. Less cruel on the animals but not on my eyes!

The second one looks like a Wooly Mammoth and the ice he got frozen in.

Louboutin uses Coyote....

Coyote balls?? Weird.

While Hermes uses Raccoon...

Pierre Hardy uses Marmot (a kind of giant squirel)

Then Manolo trumps them all and uses Chinchilla fur

While my pet Chinchilla, Fafi strongly objects. Aint she cute?

Then, just when you think it couldn't get any more vulgar, Roger Vivier gives small defenseless animals a big ol middle finger and sticks a dyed pink fox face on a clutch. Classy.

Listen. I'm not an animal rights activist but fur has never really sat well with me. Even if these shoes were all faux fur, I still wouldn't like them cause they look silly.

What do you guys think about fur on shoes?? What is your stance on fur, if you have one?

I leave you with this. One of my favorite anti-fur moments of classic American cinema...

xox

The Clog Debate

Ever since I saw the girls clomping down the runway at Chanel's Spring 2010 show, I thought... Hmmm. Really? I've never liked clogs as there's nothing sexy about them and they are technically frumpy.

I remember even proclaiming that you would NEVER catch me in a pair of clogs. No matter who said they were cool!

Then I saw Miu Miu's clog...
Cute...ish. Still not sold.

But then these babies, also Miu Miu-

Kinda love them. Maybe because they're not opened up? I think they're really effin cool, though clearly too heavy for Spring.

This month's cover of British Vogue has Alexa Chung wearing clogs (Chanel I think) that she looks pretty great in. Then again, I personally think she looks great in most things.

So I've decided to go try some on tomorrow and see if I can get into it. This looks like a Spring trend that I will either have to pass on or try out in a cheaper way.

This one by Steve Madden seems OK and basic for a trial pair.

And of course, this beauty by Jessica Simpson that I should have bought before it sold out everywhere. Not a clog but clog-ish.

What do you all think? To clog or not to clog?? Will YOU be braving this trend or leaving it to the pros?

Oscar Wrap up...

Did you like my dress? ;)

If you follow me on Twitter you know I was doing my version of live commentary throughout the entire pre-show on E! and the actual Oscars on ABC.

Here's a recap of my Tweets along with photos and some extra thoughts :)

Overall I was disappointed with the lack of shoes being shown, but the dresses were pretty amazing.

SOME OF MY TWEETS:

• *Mariah Carey is DISGUSTING!!! Stop playing with your dress. Nobody wants to see your coochie!!! Jeeze bitch.
• *Zoe Saldana looks amazinggggg. So pretty ♥
• *Dear Mrs Cameron... Eat a damn cracker.
• *I hope Mo'nique shaved her legs this time
• *@ryanseacrest you forgot to ask Sigourney Weaver what she's wearing! I'm guessing its Lanvin but could be wrong.
• *Ummm Miss Jay, how can we take your fashion advice seriously when you have silver spray paint hair?
• *Stand up STRAIGHT Miley Cyrus!! My goodness.
• *SJP... Do I love what you're wearing or don't I? Not sure yet but I DO know that your arms are bangin. Love u.
• *Charlize Theron... Looks like two labias covering your tatas. Are you a movie star or a boobie star??
• *Meryl Streep!!!!! Effing WERQ woman!!! Shit I love her!!!!!!!!!! Beeeautiful!
• *Kate Winslet... I love you but SNORESVILLE... Zzzzzzz It's the#Oscars Spice it up. I suppose if you're not nominated it's ok be just ok
• *Helen Mirrin looks so elegant. I hope I look that good when I'm grown up*
• *Why does everyone think Jlo looks so great?? She looks like she's in lavender bubble wrap. Am I alone here??
• *Did that chick just Kanye his speech??? WTF was that??
• *Queen Latifah looks STUNNING! Go girl GO!
• *I wish Kristen Stewart didn't always look so uncomfortable. You're famous bitch... get used to it.
• *I think Meryl is my winner for most beautiful for the evening. She is glowing and glamorous and stunning and beautiful.

What I was talking about:

Let's start with miss slut bag Mariah Carey. Nasty. Please watch, and note at the beginning how she tries to flash us her crotch and Ryan Seacrest pulls her hand away... She continues to open her dress slit throughout the entire interview. Get a grip lady. You are not as hot as you think and you are too old for this shit.

Next up- Zoe Saldana in what I think was my favorite dress of the evening:

So girly! Sparkly and frilly... I'm in :)

Eat a cracker please...

She looked frail and sickly.

And Miss Mo did not, in fact shave. Apparently she just doesn't. Here's what I was talking about:

Mo'Nique at the Golden Globes. Yikes.

I guessed that she was in Lanvin and I was right-

Sigourney Weaver in a classic Lanvin style.

We're supposed to take a man who spray paints his hair silver seriously?

J Manuel was on E! giving us his opinion on the red carpet fashion.

Miley Cyrys would have probably looked great if she would have just stood up straight. She was practicing her hunchback all evening. Maybe she was trying to look high fashion?

I wasn't sure about SJP's dress last night and I'm still unsure. In this photo it looks like maybe she isn't sure either...

Here it was on Chanel's Haute Couture runway

Next up: Charleze Theron and the dress that I thought looked very... sexual. Are those vajayjays on her tatas??

Not into it.

Meryl Streep on the other hand... Perfection. I wish I had a video for her because this picture doesn't really do her justice. She was so elegant she took my breath away.

Kate Winslet may be beautiful and talented but her dress was BOOOOORING...

Helen Mirren... what an inspiration. I hope to look half this good at her age. What a beautifully elegant woman! What a cute couple too ;)

JLO came wrapped in Armani Privé lavender bubble wrap. What a bold fashion choice...

Bubble wrap... Bubble butt.

The "Miss Kanye" I was talking about. It was a pretty funny moment. It's funny because I tweeted that she Kanye'd his speech and that was exactly what tons of other people called it. I love that that is now a word.

The Queen WERQ'd!! She looked stunning!

Oh Kristen Stewart... Stop it with the awkwardness. You've got to get used to it or just stay home. If you saw her on stage you know what I mean.

So there it is. My Oscar wrap up. The highlight for me was Mariah Carey making and ass out of herself.

Hope you enjoyed!! What did you guys think?? Who were your favorites? Least favorites?