I read an interesting article in The New Yorker yesterday - "Sole Sisters" by Patricia Marx - where she lists more types of shoes (the article is literally six magazine pages long) than I've ever seen in one article before, in my entire life. She talks about Roger Vivier kitten heels, Dolce & Gabbana gladiator sandals, Tod's loafers, Masai Barefoot Technology sandals, Cole Haan tortoise-patterned patent leather OT Air Pumps, d'Orsay pumps at Dusica Dusica, Taryn Rose chocolate-colored ankle boots with a padded foot bed, a whole slew of Louboutins, John Fluevog's upturned booties, R. Crumb capitalist oxfords, Sigerson Morrison desert boots, trompe l'oeil patched shoes at Berluti, ribboned heels from Irregular Choice, Guiseppe Zanotti silver stiletto sandals, Jimmy Choo lizzie pierced-toe pumps, millions of dollars worth of Blahnik strappy sandals, Mobius shoes by Rem Koolhaas that are formed by a single band of carbon fibre, Belgian Shoes from the Upper East Side Belgian shoe boutique, Swarovski-crystal-studded sneakers by Christian Audigier, and even shoes from Payless -- AMONG MUCH MUCH MORE.It's quite the crash course in shoe-ology.
What are some key points?
- a luxury institute in New York rated Louboutin as the most prestigious shoe brand, with Manolo Blahnik second
- Belgian Shoes and Tod's are in competition with one another
- you should go to the Bergdorf Goodman semi-annual shoe sale instead of "moping around on your crutches, waiting for the other flip flop to drop"
- surgeons like clogs, but internists prefer rich-looking loafers, and nurses wear nurse shoes
- if you're a shoe lover, you can't live without those Marc Jacobs pumps with those chunky Lucite heels - you know, the ones that are $785
- women like shoes
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