Footprints 37 Walking in Memphis

Few shoes can be more iconic than the blue suede variety for sheer unadulterated cool. They rock a look but can be subtle about it. Elvis rotated his pelvis in them safe in the knowledge they wouldn't let him down. Tactile and velevety, suede longs to be stroked and gives a depth of colour that sings with top notes If in doubt over what to team with almost any outfit, a pair of stonking blue suede shoes will always make a fashion statement that says cultured, stylish, witty and damn sexy all at once. Just don't let anybody step on 'em...

Footprints 36 Gagarama

These sneakers certainly won't be making an appearance under Kate's top secret wedding dress but who knows what customised shoes may lurk in the honeymoom holdall ? Here comes the bride...

Footprints 35 Pussytoes

Purr all  you like Shoe Animals - these little footsies are going out on the tiles.We want to play on velvet paws and ring our feline bell as we walk with our tails held high and swishing.Follow if you dare but don't come too close now - our perfectly pointed claws might just scratch! Meow !

Footprints 34 Carnivorous Shoes

Gaga's Grammy carnivore entrance on tottering meat heels still entrances and entertains. Ah, that glitzy meat market of showbiz, always waiting to devour its own tail in an orgy of self predation. It seems all our succulent stars are potential fashion kill and future prey for the lip smacking papparazzi to gorge on. Poor darling celebs. If only they possessed some sensible shoes they could out run the baying camera pack. As if they wanted to !

Footprints 33 Space Beings

The shape a be-shoed foot can suggest can be a most suggestive matter. The curvilinear design of Alexander McQueen's exotic foot creatures is a case in point. Resembling strange patterened cuttlefish or newly discovered fauna from a little known corner of this wierd and wonderful planet, their rounded arch, blunt snout and spindle heel impy that you have meerly hitched a ride on a shell like crustacean or two. The extreme crescent shape recalls the excrutiating deformities of the bound foot and is here entangled with high fashion futurism that puts one in mind of the corrective footwear of the interwar years, yet combines with a reptilian ballet on blunt points to make us want to take up their challenge. Grand shoes to make a towering, platformed  statement in,and as sparky and irreverent as we likey. They invert notions of streamlined perfection and pretty practicality in favour of dynamite shoeboots with attitude to spare.Walk on the wild side at your peril Little Shoepeep. Gaga is watching ...

Footprints 32 Fish Flops

Now these are something to squelch home about.Taking summer footwear into a new dimension of scaly territory and fin to fin floppery.Not for the delicate of nose. But a surreal lil moment akin to Magritte n''est pas? And we like our entertainment arty and drole don't we dear Shoe Folk.. Slippery silvery and fairytalesque.The kind of shoes an Angela Carter character might wear on some marine /gothic adventure of pirates mermaids and lost galleons. A flagon of perfume standing by. Listen, "I have heard the mermaids singing...."

Foot prints 31 In Awhile Crocodile

Now these little greenies are sure to make you weep crocodile tears. Don't you just love the witty footprint? We  shoe lovers are not too fond of the croc but this is one reptile we do like. Brings to mind that serpent of Old Nile with a sassy new comedy style. What could be snappier ?

Footprints 30 Behind the Painted Foot

Now as you know, I am all for novelty and these artistic little numbers tickle my tootsies in just the right places. Witty and stylish (a difficult combination) with fashion flair to spare. If you can't afford these lovelies a felt tip and a steady hand could be the answer. Just don't pray for rain when you walk out and about in your faux foot shoe.

Footprints 29 Evil Feet

There are pretty tootsies, pink and rosey toes smooth and flexing their little toned bones and muscles, beach ready sexy and cute enough to display with pride. And then there are evil feet, grotesque paws with gnarled nails and rough, tough bark for skin. Feet that resemble root crops dug up too soon. Hammer Horror feet is what we have here, Hollywood monsters that plod and scuff and scab their way through undergrowth in seaarch of unsuspecting prey.Cuticles ripped and furry tufts sprouting bushy grizzled foot beards, big withbursting bunions and thickened heels. Feet that need to be wrapped in rags and stuffed into wellingtons to be kept out of sight!  So beware the evil foot dear Shoederella, prime and file and pamper yours lest you stray too far from the ways of Footly Beauty and tempt the Wicked Foot Fairy to your door.

Footprints 28 Footarama

Well well well...this Shoe Queen has much to report.. If you didn't catch Shoes at Sadlers Wells shame on you! Wall to wall shoe pals lined the auditorium and danced their socks off on stage in homage to the God of Shoes.Each dance was a tribute to the power of the decorated tootsie from trainer to towering platform.The troop were as energetic and bouncy as a new pair of Hush Puppies and took each tribute by the balls -of their feet - and danced like Moira Shearer to the rhythm of their soles. Check out thses babies worn in the theatre's bar and weep!