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 ...
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