Lookbook

Lookbook

Louboutin Store Visit — Lady Z vs Just Nothing Alta

Wanted both lasts. Left with the Just Nothing Alta. The Lady Z peep stayed on the carpet.

Lookbook

Cork Wedge Mules — Height Without a Stiletto

Black leather, stacked cork, a red insole — summer height that still has to work a pedal.

Lookbook

Ruthie Davis Puffy — Seven-Inch Patent

The Puffy last: seven-inch patent, ankle strap as construction. With a note from Davis’s own styling guide.

Platforms

Clear Platforms, Summer Denim

Transparent straps, a denim mini, brick underfoot — platforms as summer street styling.

So Kate

City Uniform — So Kate & After Hours

Height as city uniform: a shop interior, a bar stool, a red sole commuting. Subscriber lookbook.

Platforms

Platforms, Cobblestones & Summer Heat

Platforms built for real streets — leather, denim, cobblestones. Subscriber lookbook.

Ballet heels

Ballet Heels — Pointe Line, Platform Height

The house silhouette: ribbon construction, pointe-line toes, platform lift. Public lookbook.

Louboutin

Hot Chick 130 — The Everyday Extreme

Christian Louboutin Hot Chick 130: black patent to baby pink — height that still leaves the house.

Louboutin

Seams Meeting Red Soles

Seamed lines against Louboutin lacquer — a materials study in a hotel bar.

Silhouette

Silhouette Study — Height as Design

Rise, pitch, the line of the leg — reading a shoe the way you read a jacket cut.

Welcome

Welcome to the journal

An independent fashion journal of extreme footwear — ballet-inspired heels at the centre of the archive.