Extremity in shapes and pushing of forms is what Nicholas Kirkwood is known for and certainly, I can’t imagine a mass of girls teetering around the streets in these vertigo-inducing shoe/wedges, though I look forward to seeing put into a hyper-surreal context on the pages of glosses. The elegant shoe wickedly propped up on a beautifully shaped (the curve at the heel, the tapering at the back….ah…)wedge of black mirror tiles really fits the mood of SS08, the idea of elegance that has gone a bit astray.
However, for us mere mortals who don’t have the super feet to handle that, for SS08, Kirkwood has stripped away the hidden platform shoe which has been so ‘on-trend’ (to use one of Mrs Fashion’s pet peeve phrases…) of the past few seasons and exposed the platform with an angular slant.
Whilst in black, the shape is more powerfully felt, the grey, mauve, white and even hot pink lessens the extreme and tones down the agressiveness.
So in short, next mission would be to procure them. Easier said than done though…
Source: Toning down the Extreme
