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is it just me or are his shoes basically a load of old rubbish. the emperors new shoes as it where? I have rarely seen a half decent looking pair. why is everyone so obsessed with them?


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Like Prada, they're very expensive. Style wise, I don't find them attractive (too "avant-garde" for my taste). However, like a Alfa Romao automobiles and clothing by famious designers, they're a status symbol.

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I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree. It is fair to say that his latest offerings do not do this great man justice but generally he is the master of the elegant high heel. As a student, I often went down to his Chelsea shop just to peer in through the window at all those sexy sandals and skinny stilettos!

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He does precede fashion by a couple of years. He was doing pointy toes in 1996 so perhaps the "wrong symmetry" might be fashion in say 2 years or so?

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Actually, I quite liked those boots. Nice all round, I think. I might even wear something like that myself, with blue jeans.

Obsessed is such a strong word. I prefer to think of myself as "differently enthusiastic"

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