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Well. I tried to ignore them. I hoped they were an eccentricity, a frivolity, something only Anna dello Russo or Richelieu could wear. Then they started to appear on the feet of more mainstream celebrities, like Alexa Chung, Kate Moss and Kanye West. But, c’mon, they’re celebrities, everyone knows that you find one of those decently dressed as often as you find one who’s never been for a little cosmetic surgery.
But this autumn they are everywhere. (Yes, I know, I am like a year/ a year and a half behind on the catwalks trends. Hello? Have you read the name of this blog?) Like it is normal to walk around in the camerlengo’s shoes. Did you see they are made of velvet? Did you get that they are called slippers? Just because the smoking jacket became a formal dinner jacket, it doesn’t mean that you can wear these to the debutant ball just because they are called smoking slippers. I would also like to point out that before the smoking jacket became a dinner jacket and then a tuxedo, it took like a couple of centuries. So just because last year Kate Moss was wearing some slipshoes, it doesn’t mean you should.
1. From Garance Dore’s Instagram // 2. Miu Miu via Purse Forum // 3. Charlotte Olympia via Polyvore // 4. Next
And they are ugly. With that rounded toe, that shape that would inevitably deform even if you have Carla Fracci’s slender foot, why would anyone want to wear the slippers that, to date, only quite smarmy character like Hugh Hefner and Ratzinger wear?
Image: ANSA