I love the look of a very long skirt with these paper-flat boots. Women in winter must wear very high or very flat boots, it's so chic – forget your pumps. Long skirts are a must in women's wardrobes, although you don't see many of them these days.
”The shoe designer tells the Independent what's best for next seasonAre shoes so important? Really? If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it’s jewels that change an outfit. And I do love gloves. And I adddore hats. There are toooo many shoes now. I always tell the children [his students at the Royal College of Art where he is an honorary professor], ‘Don’t do shoes! Do hats!’ And the shoes are so strange, so vulgar. I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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Roberto Cavalli cocktail dresses: beginning at $41,000 [WWD]
Designer Jon Anand's sexual-assault conviction stands [LA Times]
Miley Cyrus' Wal-Mart collection is "like, literally...going to be good for, like, Middle America" [Sassybella]
Manolo Blahnik doesn't care about shoes [Grazia]
Daria Werbowy doesn't want to talk [Fashionologie]
The City star Whitney Port was seen out at TAO Las Vegas on Friday night, fulfilling her maid of honour duties by throwing her sister Ashley a party for her hen night. Port looked great in gold Manolo Blahnik heels, a leather zip skirt and a plain Alexander Wang-esqe top.
What do you think of Whitney's look?
Vogue loves her. We love her. Now you can love her, too. Sophie Gittins tells Fash Pack about training at Chloe, meeting Manolo Blahnik, and gaining a surprisingly sweet perspective from insects.
(Can you tell we're getting excited for some fabulous British designing at London Fashion Week?)
When did you start designing?
It’s hard to say when I first started officially but I’ve always been altering things and adding details. Friday teatimes were normally dominated by me attempting some hideously complicated alteration to a dress of some description – I remember painstakingly spending hours stitching lace roses onto some shoes only to change my mind the next day and snip them off again.
