• celebrities,  fashion,  High street,  shoes,  shopping,  style

    Celebrity shoe trends for Spring

    When it comes to looking at celebrity shoe trends, there always seems to be a pattern – that the shoes they wear, particularly on the red carpet, as strictly for those who travel everywhere by chaffeur driven limo. Vertiginous heels that are designed to give you vertigo, Louboutins that require you to sell a kidney in order to afford them, or some sort of strange creation that frankly defies gravity – not the sort of thing you are going to be wearing to the supermarket or whilst doing the school run. But some celebrities book the heeled and silly shoe trends to wear things that are practical as well as…

  • Autumn/Winter 2014/5,  fashion,  High street,  shoes,  shopping,  style

    Reviewed – Retro Shoes from Naturalizer

    When I was a little girl, there was always something a little bit risque about red shoes. They had an edge of danger, and of glamour and beauty. From Norma Shearer dancing her heart out in The Red Shoes, to David Bowie telling us to put on our red shoes and dance the blues, red shoes were grown up, graceful and sexy. I thought that then, and still believe it to be true now. When I was asked if I wanted to review a pair of Naturalizer shoes c/o Lotus, I was instantly drawn to the 1940s style L’Ulrich design. This pair of Mary Janes have a patent toe and…