It’s hard to wear blue velvet shoes without spending all day singing the Tony Bennett song by the same name. Or having an overwhelming urge to watch some David Lynch. These lovely desert boots with […]
I love Converse (err, who doesn’t?). Not only has it made every generation’s favourite sports shoe since 1908, looking equally as appropriate on my nine year-old niece as on suited sexagenarian Paul McCartney, but it continues to find ingenious ways of reinventing the classic basketball boot. There’s every chance you could be sitting on a tube carriage with 90% of the passengers wearing Converse, none of them wearing the same pair as you.
The brand has just announced its most recent collaboration with Italian fashion powerhouse Missoni, called The Converse Missoni Archive Project. It’s a great idea, taking beautiful deadstock fabric that appeared on Missoni’s catwalks from 1994 onwards and reworking it into your beloved Converse shape.
They are one-of-a-kind, there are only twenty pairs, and you can only buy them in Paris’s super chic Colette from this Friday, September 28th. But if you have a spare €400 and fancy a truly unique pair of Converse, it might just be worth it.
Who said flat shoes were practical?
Brace yourselves: you’re about to be confronted with the least appropriate footwear for a) this terrible rain and b) late September. RAFFIA SANDALS. Right now, Planet Fashion is thinking about NEXT summer. Yep, when you […]
These are wellingtons Jim, but not as we know it
Anyone in the south of the UK today will know that the weather is appalling. It is WET. The rain is coming down like stair rods, as my grandmother would say. But I was actually […]
Friday afternoon delight
What’s this? Boots with detachable ankle cuffs? Yes indeedy, people! These stunners, designed by Zoe Lee (who, incidentally, was tutored by Manolo Blahnik, so no wonder they’re beautiful) are currently on the ends of my […]
J.W. Anderson SS13 go-go boots
The J.W. Anderson show at London fashion week on Monday night was worth the wait (it was a late one, I was tired), and my favourite thing was these go-go style boots. But which pair […]
