Yes I’m the idiot who bolted out of a show at Paris Fashion Week two seasons ago because I felt so completely out of place and that show happened to be Junko Shimada. So therefore, I missed the parade of platformed espadrilles (yes that shoe related ‘e’ word makes it’s Style Bubble debut today…) festooned with florals. So therefore I didn’t even spot them until I came across this wonderful image shot by Louise Enhorning in the editorial ‘The Surreal World’ in the new issue of Nylon, styled by Shino Itoi. The orange flowers bloom ever so nicely against the orange tights and stark white shoe.
With the appearance of detachability between flowers and shoes, it does give me no choice but to seek out a DIY option on these. Of course, stealing plastic blooms from the local caff and glue-gunning them onto a pair of cheapie platforms isn’t the way. The mind will continue to ‘bloom’ though and hopefully something less … um… ‘pound-shop’ will come about…
ohh they are all sooo pretty! i esp love the first two. haha getting fake plastic flowers from the local store would look very tacky indeed. i lovvee the orange ones from the nylong pic as well. really good idea for summer.
Ikea have some strangely beautiful plastic flowers at the moment … they might do the job? With a glue gun and some wire who knows!?
oh you could SO whip yourself up a fabulous pair of these! i’d love to see the results.
i must admit that the monochrome of orange-on-orange in the nylon shoot, creating such an interesting silhouette to the ankle with less emphasis on the flower, is my favourite though.
I’m putting this on my list of DIY projects as well 😉
Oh wow — the platforms themselves look so much like wicker baskets; it’s really charming! I think my favorites are the morning glories (the second pair) — you can’t even see her toes!
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I wouldn’t have expected to like it if I saw it say in a magazine or something. But because you chose it (and posted it) I dunno for some reason I’m liking it. =)
o my gosh! i don’t care – i love the one on the far left! i’d happily bounce around in them!
I want to do this to all my summer shoes…flats too with buckles.
This is such an exciting time in footwear right now. Everywhere I look there are shoes to absolutely drool over and covet. I’ve always been a shoe whore, but I can’t ever recall a period in my fashion history when shoes felt this innovative and new, not just recycled ideas from the past.
I was in love with the idea of blooming shoes for awhile and after one unfortunate incident involving superglue which had me walking around with webbed fingers for awhile I gave it up. However I’m now thinking that perhaps what should be done is the creation of flowered shin pad things ala your strappy ones. Using a really artificial colours for the flowers/material and wearing them with similar coloured tights would definitely work, me thinks! Thanks for the idea.
I like the red and white pair in the editorial, but I think the other examples look exceptionally cheap.
Its like a low budget Hawaiian vacation on your feet.
understated, to say the least!
Wow – whilst not really practical with the majorly windy weather we’re having over here, I still really want to own a pair!
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Wow, that’s something different. A bit too way out for me, but I’ll look forward to seeing what you come up with:)
I just looked at these today!!! and stopped dead in my tracks, they’re wonderful!
those shoes are a bit out of my league, but what i thought was interesting was how the flower trend seems to have migrated from the head [headbands & hats decorated in them] to the feet [the shoes].
i`d never be able to pull off flowery shoes, maybe b/c i`m not too big on the wedges, but i`m sure if you do a diy they`ll probably look fabulous 🙂
Not my style, but interesting!
I will keep the flowers on my clothes, and in my hair!
the blue ones are georgeous, but I think they look even better with the color-coordinated tights in the Nylon picture, it adds something surrealistic and takes off the typical pretty pretty flower feel.
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Fanciful and lovely. Alas, I’d destroy them instantly.
ooh i love these, i wonder if i could rock these out and about in nyc? what do you think?
I adore that 2nd pair. I bet I could tie some silk versions to my espadrilles.
These shows are remarkably similar to traditional Greek shoes. The greek version are historic and cassic to the nation but if you replace the bob with a flower or mindless ruffles, you can have this new trend. So in a sense the greeks invented his ‘trend’!!!!
oh to be Greek you are ever so innovative, creative and nonsensical?!
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